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 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. He agreed that she could write his biography despite never having written - or even read - a biography herself. In 1971 Deirdre Bair was a journalist with a recently acquired PhD who managed to secure access to Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett. A story well told.' - New York Times Book Reviewįinalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography 2020 Wonderfully entertaining and absorbing' - Sunday Times
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