Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir and Me – a Memoir

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 ne