A The Times & Sunday Times Literary Nonfiction Book of the Year
'Fascinating... Wonderfully entertaining and absorbing' Sunday
Times 'Gripping... A story well told.' New York Times Book Review
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography 2020 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, 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. The catch? De Beauvoir and
Beckett despised each other - and lived essentially on the same
street. 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. Her seven-year relationship with the
domineering and difficult de Beauvoir required a radical change in
approach, yielding another groundbreaking literary profile. Drawing
on Bair's extensive notes from the period, including
never-before-told anecdotes and details that were considered
impossible to publish at the time, Parisian Lives is full of
personality and warmth and gives us an entirely new window on the
all-too-human side of these legendary thinkers.
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