Adam Begley

The blistering experience of writing about Samuel Beckett

As a newly minted PhD, Deirdre Bair began her biography in 1971 — only to be continually snubbed and taunted by a phalanx of male ‘Becketteers’

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  • Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir and Me: A Memoir

    Deirdre Bair

    Atlantic Books, pp. 347, £18

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