5/27/2023 0 Comments Samuel Beckett by Deirdre Bair![]() Though she won the National Book Award, Bair decided that she would never write another biography. She chronicles difficult separations from her family, conducting hundreds of interviews, exhausting struggles for funding, the cruelty of turf-defending academics, and, at every turn, rampant sexism. In this gripping “bio-memoir,” Bair candidly, dramatically, and sometimes bemusedly recounts the shocking adversity, both devious and outright vicious, that she encountered throughout the seven long years she worked diligently on her groundbreaking book. ![]() Married with two children when she entered graduate school, her fascination with Samuel Beckett and his work inspired her to leap into biography, a literary endeavor she knew nothing about. Bair had no idea of what she was getting herself into when she decided to leave journalism for literature. ![]()
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