Deirdre Bair (1935–2020)
Autor/a de Simone de Beauvoir: A Biography
Sobre l'autor
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'n més the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations and the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College. She divides her time between New York and Connecticut mostra'n menys
Obres de Deirdre Bair
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom oficial
- Bartolotta, Deirdre (birth name)
Bair, Deirdre - Data de naixement
- 1935-06-21
- Data de defunció
- 2020-04-17
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de defunció
- New Haven, Connecticut, USA
- Causa de la mort
- heart failure
- Educació
- University of Pennsylvania (BA, 1957)
Columbia University (MA, 1968; PhD, 1972) - Professions
- biographer
scholar of comparative literature
university professor
journalist - Organitzacions
- The New Haven Register
Newsweek
University of Pennsylvania - Premis i honors
- National Book Award (1981)
Gradiva Award (2004) - Biografia breu
- Award-winning biographer Deirdre Bair also writes frequently about feminist issues and culture. She is a former professor of comparative literature.
Membres
Ressenyes
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 10
- Membres
- 1,588
- Popularitat
- #16,243
- Valoració
- 3.9
- Ressenyes
- 19
- ISBN
- 71
- Llengües
- 11
- Preferit
- 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.… (més)