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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.

Freud's 'crown prince', Carl Gustav Jung eventually abandoned Freud's theory to form his own. As Freud's influence has waned, Jung's ideas have gained currency. This biography considers his life and ideas, exploring the accusations of anti-Semitism and misogyny by examining his own writings.

Biography of controversial author Anaïs Nin, known for her erotic books and many affairs, especially the one with fellow writer Henry Miller, with information taken from Nin's extensive diaries and interviews with family, friends, and enemies

This definitive biography is based on five years of interviews with de Beauvoir, and is written with her full cooperation. Bair penetrates the mystique of this brilliant and often paradoxical woman, who has been called one of the great minds of the 20th century, and surely, one of the most famously unconventional figures of her generation. "As a reference work . . . Simone de Beauvoir can be considered definitive."--The Atlantic. 16-page photographic insert.

This biography of the Nobel Prize-winning novelist and playwright is a monumental work of scholarship, arguably the most significant book about Beckett ever published. It offers a compelling narrative of Beckett's life, from his upper-middle-class Irish childhood to his early years in Paris and his complex relationship with Joyce. The book reveals Beckett's psychological struggles through over 300 previously unknown letters to confidant Thomas McGreevy, his heroic service with the French Resistance, and the extraordinary post-World War II period that birthed his first masterpieces. It chronicles his tumultuous family relationships, the psychosomatic illnesses that hindered his writing, and the autobiographical elements in his work. The narrative also delves into his connections with publishers, actors, directors, and friends, painting a portrait of Beckett as the poet of despair and an enigmatic artist who transformed modern man's destitution into exaltation. Despite Beckett's initial refusal to authorize the book, Deirdre Bair conducted extensive research across multiple countries and interviewed countless individuals, resulting in a literary biography that meets the highest scholarly standards. Bair, an accomplished academic, has taught at prestigious institutions and continues to contribute to the field of literature.