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Descripton : national book award winning biographer deirdre bair explores her fifteen remarkable years in paris with samuel beckett and simone de beauvoir painting intimate new portraits of two literary giants and revealing secrets of the biographical art in 1971 deirdre bair was a journalist and recently minted ph d who managed to secure access to nobel prize winning author samuel beckett he agreed that she could write his biography despite never having written or even read a biography herself the next seven years of intimate conversations intercontinental research and peculiar cat and mouse games resulted in samuel beckett a biography which went on to win the national book award and propel deirdre to her next subject simone de beauvoir the catch de beauvoir and beckett despised each other and lived essentially on the same street while quite literally dodging one subject or the other and sometimes hiding out in the backrooms of the great caf s of paris bair learned that what works in terms of process for one biography rarely applies to the next her seven year relationship with the domineering and difficult de beauvoir required a radical change in approach yielding another groundbreaking literary profile drawing on bair s extensive notes from the period including never before told anecdotes and details that were considered impossible to publish at the time parisian lives is full of personality and warmth and give us an entirely new window on the all too human side of these legendary thinkers