The next seven years of intimate conversations, intercontinental research, and peculiar cat-and-mouse games resulted in Samuel Beckett: A Biography, which went on to win the National Book Award and propel Deirdre to her next subject: Simone de Beauvoir. He agreed that she could write his biography despite never having written-or even read-a biography herself. who managed to secure access to Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett. National Book Award-winning biographer Deirdre Bair explores her fifteen remarkable years in Paris with Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir, painting intimate new portraits of two literary giants and revealing secrets of the biographical art.In 1971 Deirdre Bair was a journalist and recently minted Ph.D. CI14S Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me (A Memoir) Full
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