Deirdre Bair, Author . Little, Brown $35 (881p) ISBN 978-0-316-07665-4
Jung's shade would be content with Bair's biography, which in bulk and detail suggests that there is little more to say. Lucid and persuasive, the National Book Award–winning biographer of Beckett strikes a balance between damage...
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Deirdre Bair, Author . Random $24.95 (326p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6448-9
The inspiration for this book came from a magazine survey on late-life divorce in AARP
that Bair came across in her dentist's waiting room. It hit a chord with Bair, whose own marriage had ended in divorce after 43 years, and she set out to...
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Deirdre Bair, Author Touchstone Books $43.95 (736p) ISBN 978-0-671-74180-8
De Beauvoir's extraordinary, long relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre is the focus of this portrait, which combines literary biography, intellectual and oral history and feminist theory. PW called pk the work ``impressively researched. . . . Bair...
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Deirdre Bair, Author Penguin Books $16.95 (672p) ISBN 978-0-14-025525-6
Biography of Nin, a bohemian writer best known for her voluminous diary and her sexually explicit fiction. (June)
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Deirdre Bair, Author Little Brown and Company $24.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-60681-7
This impressively researched biography by the author of Samuel Beckett is the most detailed account to date of the life and work of de Beauvoir (1908-1986). Based on many interviews, and discussing each of Beauvoir's works within the chronology of...
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Deirdre Bair, Author Putnam Publishing Group $39.95 (654p) ISBN 978-0-399-13988-8
Nin (1903-1977) is largely regarded as a sometimes risibly affected writer of erotic fiction (The House of Incest) and of a voluminous and sexually frank diary. National Book Award winner Bair (Samuel Beckett: A Biography) maintains that Nin is ``a...
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Deirdre Bair. Doubleday/Talese, $30 (416p) ISBN 978-0-385-53715-5
National Book Award-winning biographer Bair (Samuel Beckett) interrogates the notion of the “real” Al Capone (1899–1947). Capone’s life has been well documented in countless books, articles, and movies, but most of it has been falsified or...
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Deirdre Bair. Nan A. Talese, $28.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-385-54245-6
By turns scholarly and salacious, biographer Bair (Samuel Beckett) has loosened decades of polite tongue-biting to write the backstory in what she calls a “bio-memoir” of two influential writers. With humiliating candor, she admitted to a complete...
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