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. The catch? De Beauvoir and Beckett despised each other-and lived essentially on the same street. The next sevenyears 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. He agreed that she could write his biography despite never having written-or even read-a biography herself. who managed to secure access to Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett. In 1971Deirdre Bair was a journalist and recently minted Ph.D. with Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir, painting intimate new portraits of two literary giants and revealing secrets of the biographical art. "National Book Award-winning biographer Deirdre Bair explores her fifteen remarkable years in Paris.
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