Deirdre Bair (1935–2020)
Autore di Simone de Beauvoir: A Biography
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Deirdre Bair received the National Book Award for Samuel Beckett: A Biography. She has been a literary journalist and university professor of comparative literature. Her biographies of Anais Nin and Simone de Beauvoir were also prize finalists, and she was awarded fellowships from (among others) mostra altro the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations and the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College. She divides her time between New York and Connecticut mostra meno
Opere di Deirdre Bair
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Bair, Deirdre
- Nome legale
- Bartolotta, Deirdre (birth name)
Bair, Deirdre - Data di nascita
- 1935-06-21
- Data di morte
- 2020-04-17
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di morte
- New Haven, Connecticut, USA
- Causa della morte
- heart failure
- Istruzione
- University of Pennsylvania (BA, 1957)
Columbia University (MA, 1968; PhD, 1972) - Attività lavorative
- biographer
scholar of comparative literature
university professor
journalist - Organizzazioni
- University of Pennsylvania
The New Haven Register
Newsweek - Premi e riconoscimenti
- National Book Award (1981)
Gradiva Award (2004) - Breve biografia
- Award-winning biographer Deirdre Bair also writes frequently about feminist issues and culture. She is a former professor of comparative literature.
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- Opere
- 10
- Utenti
- 1,601
- Popolarità
- #16,102
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 19
- ISBN
- 71
- Lingue
- 11
- Preferito da
- 1
Bair also wrote a biography of Simone de Beauvoir, a ten year effort. She got to know Beauvoir’s friends, family and many other feminists in that decade. Her descriptions of the interview, writing and travel process for both books, as well as how it all affected the other areas of her life as a professor, wife and mother, are fascinating. Bair provides true insight to the life and methods of a biographer.
Bair writes of the difficulties of being taken seriously as a woman, journalist and biographer, both in academia and the literary world. She feels it was an “almost unbelievable privilege to know and write about these two giants of contemporary culture.” She describes the experience well in this book.… (altro)