Parisian Lives av Deirdre Bair

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<p><b>A <i>The Times </i>&<i>Sunday Times </i>Literary Nonfiction Book of the Year</b><br><b><br>''Fascinating... Wonderfully entertaining and absorbing'' <i>Sunday Times</i></b><br><b><br>''Gripping... </b><b>A story well told.</b><b>'' <i>New York Times Book Review</i></b><br><br><b>Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography 2020</b><br><br>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 <i>Samuel Beckett: A Biography</i>, 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 subj