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Bair, Deirdre.
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Bair, Deirdre.
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989.
Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986.
Women authors, American -- Biography.
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Biography as a literary form.
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Bair, Deirdre.
Bair, Deirdre.
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989.
Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986.
Women authors, American -- Biography.
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Biography as a literary form.
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Parisian lives : Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and me : a memoir /
Deirdre
Bair
.
by
Bair
,
Deirdre
.
Nan A. Talese, Doubleday, 2019.
Call #:
818.5403 B163p
Subjects
Bair
,
Deirdre
.
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989.
Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986.
Women authors, American -- Biography.
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Biography as a literary form.
ISBN:
9780385542456 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and me : a memoir
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
xiv, 347 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Summary:
"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. who managed to secure access to Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett. He agreed that she could write his biography despite never having written--or even read--a biography herself. 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. The catch? De Beauvoir and Beckett despised each other--and lived essentially on the same street. While quite literally dodging one subject or the other, and sometimes hiding out in the backrooms of the great cafes of Paris,
Bair
learned that what works in terms of process for one biography rarely applies to the next. Her seven-year relationship with the domineering and difficult de Beauvoir required a radical change in approach, yielding another groundbreaking literary profile. Drawing on
Bair
's extensive notes from the period, including never-before-told anecdotes and details that were considered impossible to publish at the time, Parisian Lives is full of personality and warmth and give us an entirely new window on the all-too-human side of these legendary thinkers."--From publisher.
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