Publishers Weekly

The Essential Samuel Beckett: An Illustrated Biography

For writers, the face of Samuel Beckett, in all its graven, leathery, wrinkled severity, remains an object of great aspiration--it seems to be what a writer's face should look like. So it's fitting ...
Time

I Was a Teenage Samuel Beckett: Or, My Literary Biography Problem

Stage and Screen,Literature, Personalities, pic: circa 1960's, Samuel Beckett, (1906-1989) Irish born playwright and novelist, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969 (Photo by Paul ...
The Globe and Mail

Samuel Beckett, Yeats, and the occult: A digression

W. B. Yeats's occultism fits into an Irish Protestant literary tradition that includes Sheridan Le Fanu, Charles Maturin, Bram Stoker and Elizabeth Bowen. These, according to R. F. Foster in W.B.
The New York Times

Beckett, Beauvoir and a Biographer’s Bumpy Takeoff

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. Biography, Oscar Wilde once wrote, “lends to death a new terror ...
The Guardian

Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir and Me review – a biographer’s voyage

In 1971, Deirdre Bair achieved one of the great literary scoops of our times. Armed with a recently completed PhD and an abandoned career as a journalist for Newsweek, she persuaded Samuel Beckett to ...
The Guardian

The Letters of Samuel Beckett 1966-1989 review – a ‘long farewelling’

The fourth and final volume of these impeccably edited letters covers the years in which Beckett won the Nobel prize but became ‘weary with words’ In late-1960s New York, a writer and Samuel Beckett ...
The New York Times

Learning the Wiles of a Biographer, With Beckett and Beauvoir

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Alan Riding PARISIAN LIVES Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir and Me: A Memoir By Deirdre Bair ...