Deirdre Bair, who as an unknown writer half a century ago scored a coup by getting the reclusive Samuel Beckett to agree to let her write his biography, then secured the same permission from another ...

(Lev Grossman writes about books here on Wednesdays. Subscribe to his RSS feed.) I got my first whiff of what big-time adult literature was all about when I was in 8th grade. I got it from Mark ...

For writers, the face of Samuel Beckett, in all its graven, leathery, wrinkled severity, remains an object of great aspiration--it seems to be what a writer's face should look like. So it's fitting ...

Buying drinks and rebuffing sexual advances ... the literary biographer reveals all about the process of writing two acclaimed lives When Samuel Beckett agreed to let Deirdre Bair write his biography, ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Alan Riding PARISIAN LIVES Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir and Me: A Memoir By Deirdre Bair ...

W. B. Yeats's occultism fits into an Irish Protestant literary tradition that includes Sheridan Le Fanu, Charles Maturin, Bram Stoker and Elizabeth Bowen. These, according to R. F. Foster in W.B.

The fourth and final volume of these impeccably edited letters covers the years in which Beckett won the Nobel prize but became ‘weary with words’ In late-1960s New York, a writer and Samuel Beckett ...

American academic Deirdre Bair won global acclaim for her biographies of the writers Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) and Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986). In this memoir, she recalls those heady years in ...

A self-proclaimed “accidental biographer”, Deirdre Bair has documented the lives of subjects as varied as Anaïs Nin, the graphic artist Saul Steinberg and gangster Al Capone. In this memoir, she ...