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092    BIO|bBAIR 
100 1  Bair, Deirdre,|eauthor. 
245 10 Parisian lives :|bSamuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and 
       me : a memoir /|cDeirdre Bair. 
246 30 Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and me : a memoir 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bNan A. Talese, Doubleday,|c[2019] 
300    xiv, 347 pages ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
520    "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"--
       |cProvided by publisher. 
600 10 Bair, Deirdre. 
600 10 Beckett, Samuel,|d1906-1989|xPsychology. 
600 10 Beauvoir, Simone de,|d1908-1986|xPsychology. 
650  0 Women authors, American|vBiography. 
650  0 Authors, American|y20th century|vBiography. 
650  0 Autobiography|xWomen authors. 
650  0 Biography as a literary form.