But that puts a gloss on the fraught journey described in “Parisian Lives.” The payoff was that her Beckett biography won the 1981 National Book Award and that, after Beauvoir, she went on to write books about Anaïs Nin, Carl Jung, Saul Steinberg and Al Capone.
Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir and Me: A MemoirĪnyone planning to write a biography of a living person might be forewarned by Deirdre Bair’s “bio-memoir,” her gripping account of uncovering the lives of Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir.
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