![]() ![]() Bair, who resorted to dodging one subject or the other by hiding out in the great cafés of Paris, learned that what works in terms of process for one biography rarely applies to the next. Plus, there was a catch: Beauvoir and Beckett despised each other-and lived in the same neighborhood. Where Beckett had been retiring and elusive, Beauvoir was domineering and all encompassing. The next seven years of probing conversations, intercontinental research, singular encounters with Beckett's friends, and peculiar cat-and-mouse games resulted in Samuel Beckett: A Biography, which went on to win the National Book Award and propel Bair to her next subject: Simone de Beauvoir. He agreed that she could be his biographer despite her never having written a biography before. who managed to secure access to Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett. In 1971 Deirdre Bair was a journalist and a recently minted Ph.D. ![]() 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 order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account. ![]()
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