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(0)Deirdre Bair
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019
National 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 to Nobel Prize-winning author...
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019
National 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 to Nobel Prize-winning author...
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
x, 395 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
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 Capone's descendants, Deirdre Bair finally gets at the truth behind this eternally fascinating man, who was equal parts charismatic mobster, doting father, and calculating monster.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
xiii, 881 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
This authoritative biography reveals the untold truth about Jung's secret work for the Allies during World War II, his controversial affair with one of his patients, and the contents of his private papers, as well as never before published photos.