![]() ![]() ![]() Even then, he didn’t make it easy, from the very beginning: Beckett unexpectedly left Paris for Tunisia just as Bair arrived, leaving her to navigate a labyrinth of delays and silences without any direction from him. Nevertheless, she was particularly qualified to write Beckett’s, having worked as a journalist for a decade, having just written a dissertation on his fiction, and-perhaps most importantly-having the courage or gall to write him a letter offering to do it. When she set out to write her award-winning biography of Samuel Beckett, Deirdre Bair had never even read a modern biography. Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me: A Memoir ![]()
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