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03437aam a22004938i 4500 001 BC5C57C2CFA311E9B77D544F97128E48 003 SILO 005 20190905010153 008 190423s2019 nyu 000 0aeng 010 $a 2019006879 020 $a 0385542453 020 $a 9780385542456 035 $a (OCoLC)1086566104 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d BDX $d OCLCF $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS3602 A5635 Z46 2019 100 1 $a Bair, Deirdre $e author. 245 10 $a Parisian lives : $b Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and me : a memoir / $c Deirdre Bair. 246 30 $a Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and me : a memoir 250 $a First edition. 263 $a 1911 264 1 $a New York : $b Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, $c 2019. 300 $a pages cm 520 $a "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 cafes 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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a "A memoir of the author's experience writing biographies of Samuel Beckett ans Simone de Beauvoir"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Bair, Deirdre. 600 10 $a Beckett, Samuel, $d 1906-1989 $x Psychology. 600 10 $a Beauvoir, Simone de, $d 1908-1986 $x Psychology. 650 0 $a Women authors, American $v Biography. 650 0 $a Authors, American $y 20th century $v Biography. 650 0 $a Autobiography $x Women authors. 650 0 $a Biography as a literary form. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Bair, Deirdre, author. $t Parisian lives $b First edition. $d New York : Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, 2019 $z 9780385542463 941 $a 7 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317021241.0 952 $l GEPG771 $d 20210722063158.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210707011813.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20210701010858.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20200222010655.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20191203011944.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20191122010603.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=BC5C57C2CFA311E9B77D544F97128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search