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Books by Deirdre Bair
  | | Parisian Lives Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me: A Memoir by Deirdre Bair Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 2019 by Nan A. Talese Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-0-385-54245-6, ISBN: 0-385-54245-3 "One of The New York Times's 13 Books to Watch For in NovemberA Publishers Weekly Best Book of the YearNational 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 a recently minted Ph.D. who managed to secure access ..." |
 | | Al Capone(Reprint) His Life, Legacy, and Legend by Deirdre Bair Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 2017 by Anchor ISBN-13: 978-0-345-80451-8, ISBN: 0-345-80451-1 "From a National Book Award-winning biographer, the first complete life of legendary gangster Al Capone to be produced with the cooperation of his family, who provided the author with exclusive access to personal testimony and archival documents. From his heyday to the present moment, Al Capone--Public Enemy Number One--has gripped popular imagination. Rising from humble Brooklyn roots, Capone went on to become the most infamous gangster ..." |
 | | Simone de Beauvoir(1st Edition) A Biography by Deirdre Bair Paperback, 718 Pages, Published 1991 by Touchstone ISBN-13: 978-0-671-74180-8, ISBN: 0-671-74180-2 "and Beauvoir cooperated with everything her publisher asked her to do. ... "The love story is highly praised," she repeated once again, as if to convince him that he should not take umbrage at it. Again, she quibbled with the truth: "It is not exactly our story, but a story about a man a little bit like you and a woman a little bit like ... Earlier she sent him a copy of the French edition — "even though you never learned to read F ..." |
 | | Jung(Reprint) A Biography by Deirdre Bair Paperback, 928 Pages, Published 2004 by Back Bay Books ISBN-13: 978-0-316-15938-8, ISBN: 0-316-15938-7 "27 Mary also raised the possibility of Michael Fordham to be "editor in chief." Read had other ideas on every front. Still thinking first publication would be in England, he wanted the staff to be London-based. Read suggested himself for editor in chief and Michael Fordham for a lesser status as co-editor, with R. F. C. Hull as translator.28 Jung had reservations about Fordham because he did not " know Dr. Fordham well enough to be ..." |
 | | A Cafe in Space The Anais Nin Literary Journal, Vol. 7 by Anais Nin, Deirdre Bair, Kim Krizan, Tristine Rainer, John Ferrone, Paul Herron Paperback, 150 Pages, Published 2010 by Sky Blue Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9774851-6-1, ISBN: 0-9774851-6-1 "Volume 7 of A Cafe in Space: The Anais Nin Literary journal contains revelations about the marriage between Anais Nin and Hugh Guiler. Kim Krizan's article "Hugh's Stand" shows how Guiler, contrary to popular belief, offered his wife a divorce. Furture research has unearthed a critical diary Guiler kept during this time, which explains his the anger that led to his decision. Also in this issue are excerpts from Nin's unpublished 1940s ..." |
 | | Al Capone(1st Edition) His Life, Legacy, and Legend by Deirdre Bair, Donald Ray Pollock Hardcover, 416 Pages, Published 2016 by Nan A. Talese Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-0-385-53715-5, ISBN: 0-385-53715-8 "From a National Book Award-winning biographer, the first complete life of legendary gangster Al Capone to be produced with the cooperation of his family, who provided the author with exclusive access to personal testimony and archival documents. Born in 1899 in Brooklyn, New York, to poor, Italian immigrant parents, Al Capone went on to become the most infamous gangster in American history. In 1925, during the height of Prohibition, Cap ..." |
 | | Calling It Quits(1st Edition) Late-Life Divorce and Starting Over by Deirdre Bair Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2007 by Random House ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-6448-9, ISBN: 1-4000-6448-1 "This is the first book to reveal the truth about the exploding phenomenon of late-life divorce, which has resulted in a seismic shift in modern relationships. Now, in a finger-on-the-pulse examination of this growing trend, Deirdre Bair, New York Times bestselling author and winner of the National Book Award, explores the many reasons why older, long-married couples break up. Having conducted nearly four hundred interviews with ex-wives ..." |
 | | Jung(1st Edition) A Biography by Deirdre Bair Hardcover, 860 Pages, Published 2003 by Little, Brown And Company ISBN-13: 978-0-316-07665-4, ISBN: 0-316-07665-1 "Deirdre Bair has written about some of the most influential figures in 20th century culture-Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Anas Nin. Now she turns her expert eye to the one person whose teachings and writings are the most influential of all: psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung. The founder of analytical psychology, Jung became the first president of the International Psychoanalytic Association in 1910. Jung had a professional relati ..." |
 | | Anais Nin a Biography(Updated) by Deirdre Bair Paperback, 672 Pages, Published 1996 by Trafalgar Square ISBN-13: 978-0-7475-2542-4, ISBN: 0-7475-2542-0 "This biography offers an insight into the intellectual and sexual life of Anais Nin. It includes material drawn from unpublished archives and diary pages and shows how through her lifelong struggle to become a respected writer, she constructed a way of life that became confused even to herself." |
 | | Simone De Beauvoir(1st Edition) A Biography by Deirdre Bair Hardcover, 718 Pages, Published 1990 by Summit Books ISBN-13: 978-0-671-60681-7, ISBN: 0-671-60681-6 "This definitive biography is based on five years of interviews with de Beauvoir, and is written with her full cooperation. Bair penetrates the mystique of this brilliant and often paradoxical woman, who has been called one of the great minds of the 20th century, and surely, one of the most famously unconventional figures of her generation. "As a reference work . . . Simone de Beauvoir can be considered definitive".--The Atlantic. 16-pag ..." |
 | | Samuel Beckett(Updated) A Biography by Deirdre Bair, Samuel: Beckett Paperback, 736 Pages, Published 1990 by Simon & Schuster ISBN-13: 978-0-671-69173-8, ISBN: 0-671-69173-2 "When the play was successful, he stayed on, but to the end he swore that he never understood a word of it and only did what Blin told him to do.38 Serge Lecointe was cast as the small boy. Several actors now forgotten formed a succession of Luckys before Jean Martin took the part. From the first cast meeting until the dress rehearsal, Beckett played as important a role as his director. Every aspect came under his intense scrutiny, ..." |
 | | Samuel Beckett(Reprint) by Deirdre Bair Paperback, 760 Pages, Published 2016 by Simon & Schuster ISBN-13: 978-1-5011-5871-1, ISBN: 1-5011-5871-6 "The biography of Samuel Beckett, the writer and winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1969, who died in December 1989. He is the author of Waiting for Godot, Happy Days, Molloy, Krapp's Last Tape and The Unnamable." |
 | | Calling It Quits Late Life Divorce and Starting Over by Deirdre Bair Paperback, 360 Pages, Published 2013 by Argo-Navis ISBN-13: 978-0-7867-5488-5, ISBN: 0-7867-5488-5 "Some gave the usual reasons: "He traded me in for a trophy wife younger than our daughter," or "We had nothing in common anymore," or I couldn't take his ...{fill in the blank - gambling, drinking, womanizing)." But I also heard a lot of stories from men and women who I though lived comfortable, contented lives in financially secure marriages and who said that they didn't care what the future might hold, that they divorced because they ..." |
 | | Simone de Beauvoir A Biography by Deirdre Bair Misc. Supplies, 718 Pages, Published 1990 by Jonathan Cape Import ISBN-13: 978-0-224-02048-0, ISBN: 0-224-02048-X |
 | | Parisian Lives Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me: a Memoir (Paperback) by Deirdre Bair Paperback, Published 2020 by Anchor ISBN-13: 978-0-525-43290-6, ISBN: 0-525-43290-6 |
 | | Saul Steinberg(1st Edition) A Biography by Deirdre Bair, Saul Steinberg Hardcover, 752 Pages, Published 2012 by Nan A. Talese Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-0-385-52448-3, ISBN: 0-385-52448-X "From National Book Award winner Deirdre Bair, the definitive biography of Saul Steinberg, one of The New Yorker's most iconic artists. The issue date was March 29, 1976. The New Yorker cost 75 cents. And on the cover unfolded Saul Steinberg's vision of the world: New York City, the Hudson River, and then...well, it's really just a bunch of stuff you needn't concern yourself with. Steinberg's brilliant depiction of the world according to ..." |
 | | Anais Nin(1st Edition) a Biography by Deirdre Bair Hardcover, 654 Pages, Published 1995 by Putnam Adult ISBN-13: 978-0-399-13988-8, ISBN: 0-399-13988-5 "Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 654 pages; Description: xviii, 654 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [522]-620) and index. Subjects: Nin, Anais (1903-1977) --Authors, American --20th century --Biography" |
 | | The Novel of the Future(Updated) by Anais Nin, Deirdre Bair, Anaã¯S Nin Paperback, 212 Pages, Published 2014 by Swallow Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8040-1150-1, ISBN: 0-8040-1150-8 "In The Novel of the Future, Anais Nin explores the act of creation - in film, art, and dance as well as literature - to chart a new direction for the young artist struggling against what she perceived as the sterility, formlessness, and spiritual bankruptcy afflicting much of mid-twentieth-century fiction. Nin offers, instead, an argument for and synthesis of the poetic novel and discusses her own efforts in this genre as well as its in ..." |
 | | Parisian Lives Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir and Me â" a Memoir by Deirdre Bair Softcover, Published 2021 by Atlantic Books ISBN-13: 978-1-78649-268-5, ISBN: 1-78649-268-7 |
 | | Parisian Lives Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir and Me - a Memoir (Paperback) by Deirdre Bair Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2020 by Atlantic Books ISBN-13: 978-1-78649-266-1, ISBN: 1-78649-266-0 "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." |
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