Deirdre Bair

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Deirdre Bair was a National Book Award-winning biographer and literary scholar.

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Books by Deirdre Bair

Samuel Beckett

By Deirdre Bair

In the first biography of Samuel Beckett, Deirdre Bair chronicles Beckett’s tumultuous relationship with his family, the psychosomatic illnesses that often kept him from writing, and the autobiographical strains of his work.

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Simone de Beauvoir

A Biography

By Deirdre Bair

From Simon & Schuster, this definitive biography is based on five years of interviews with Simone de Beauvoir, and is written with her full cooperation.

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