Parisian Lives - Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir and Me: A Memoir

Deirdre Bair

In 1971 Deirdre Bair was a journalist with a recently acquired PhD 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, in...