Samuel Beckett

In the first biography of Samuel Beckett, Deirdre Bair chronicles Beckett’s tumultuous relationship with his family, the psychosomatic illnesses that often kept him from writing, and the autobiographical strains of his work.

In a remarkable literary biography, Dierdre Bair sheds light on Nobel Prizewinning novelist and playwright Samuel Beckett in one of the most important and fascinating reads about his life.

From his upper-middle-class Irish childhood, his early years in Paris, his complex...