![]() When she first approached him about a biography, he famously said he would “neither help nor hinder” her efforts. Bair recounts what it was like profiling these two “literary giants” and the hurdles she faced in funding, facts and – above all – professional respect.Ĭontrary to the text-centric critical theory prevalent at the time, Bair believed that understanding Beckett’s life would shed light on his work. ![]() In this memoir, she returns to her first forays into the form: the seven years she spent writing a biography of Samuel Beckett (published in 1978) and a decade dedicated to capturing the life of Simone de Beauvoir (1990). ![]() 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. ![]()
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