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Parisian lives : Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and me : a memoir
- Title
- Parisian lives : Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and me : a memoir / Deirdre Bair.
- Author
- Bair, Deirdre
- Publication
- New York : Nan A. Talese, Doubleday, [2019]
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- Description
- xiv, 347 pages : illustration; 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"--
- "A memoir of the author's experience writing biographies of Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir"--
- Alternative Title
- Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and me : a memoir
- Subject
- Bair, Deirdre
- Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 > Psychology
- Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986 > Psychology
- Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986
- Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989
- 1900-1999
- Biographers > United States > Biography
- Biography as a literary form
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
- Authors, American
- Autobiography > Women authors
- Psychology
- Women authors, American
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Call Number
- JFE 20-2297
- ISBN
- 9780385542456
- 0385542453
- LCCN
- 2019006879
- 40029601313
- OCLC
- 1086566104
- Author
- Bair, Deirdre, author.
- Title
- Parisian lives : Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and me : a memoir / Deirdre Bair.
- Publisher
- New York : Nan A. Talese, Doubleday, [2019]
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Other Form:
- Online version: Bair, Deirdre, author. Parisian lives First edition. New York : Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, 2019 9780385542463 (DLC) 2019021111
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40029601313
- Research Call Number
- JFE 20-2297