![]() ![]() Though she had long toyed with the idea of writing a book about how these biographies evolved, publishers were only interested in what Beckett and Beauvoir “were really like.” And so Parisian Lives became a “hybrid of memoir and biography”, and Bair an “artist under oath”: there could be “no hiding, and sometimes it was painful.”īair had been a journalist and written a dissertation on Beckett when she wrote seeking his consent. ![]() Beckett and Beauvoir were also the biographical subjects she grew most attached to, and her recently published memoir Parisian Lives Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir and Me: A Memoir tells us why this was so. At 84, Deirdre Bair has authored six biographies but the subjects who continued to arouse the most interest were the two she first wrote about: Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir. ![]()
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