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Deirdre Bair
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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Through rigorous research and exclusive access to Capones family, Deirdre Bair cuts through the mythology, uncovering a complex character who was flawed and cruel but also capable of nobility. At…
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During the last six years of her life, the philosopher, feminist, novelist and author of the landmark work, The Second Sex , gave Deirdre Bair her unqualified co-operation and time…
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Samuel Beckett has become the standard work on the enigmatic, controversial, and Nobel Prize-winning creator of such contributions to 20th-century theater as Waiting for Godot and Endgame. 16 pages of…
Considers the prestigious thinker’s achievements as the founder of analytical psychology, his strained professional relationship with Sigmund Freud, the widespread support for his ideas, and accusations that he was anti-Semitic…
* The definitive biography of one of the modern era’s most important thinkers, from an award-winning scholar who draws on unique access to the Jung archives.
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A PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
National Book Award-winning biographer Deirdre Bair explores her fifteen remarkable years in Paris with Samuel Beckett and Simone…
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. Writing with exclusive access to…
Anais Nin
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…
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