RIP Deidre Bair, Passing of Beckett Biographer
Biographer of Beckett, Beauvoir & Jung, Deirdre Bair Died (NYtimes)
Irish Times obit
Deirdre Bair (21 June, 1935 – 17 April, 2020) was an American writer and biographer. She was the author of six works of nonfiction.
Bair received a National Book Award for Samuel Beckett: A Biography (1978).[1][a] Her biographies of Simone de Beauvoir and Carl Jung[2] were finalists for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her biographies of Anaïs Nin and Simone de Beauvoir were chosen by The New York Times as “Best Books of the Year”,
On the difficulty of convincing Samuel Beckett of just about anything
Deirdre Bair, Biographer of Record, Recalls Their First Meeting
(Literary Hub)
(Photo of Samuel Beckett by Steve Schapiro)
Samuel Becket Archive
Saul Steinberg
RIP Patricia Bosworth April, 2020.
April 24 – birthday of Patricia Bosworth, biographer of Marlon, Monty and Diane Arbus