| LC control no. | n 77016289 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PS3602.A5635 |
| Personal name heading | Bair, Deirdre |
| Other standard no. | 0000000082583609 68925026 Q3021331 |
| Associated place | Paris (France) |
| Birth date | 1935-06-21 |
| Death date | 2020-04-17 |
| Place of birth | Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
| Place of death | New Haven (Conn.) |
| Profession or occupation | Biographers Authors |
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| Found in | Her Samuel Beckett, c1978: t.p. (Deirdre Bair) Her Anaïs Nin, a biography, 1995: CIP t.p. (Deirdre Bair) data sheet (b. 6-21-35) Wikipedia online search 2019-04-23: ("American writer and biographer. She is the author of six works of nonfiction; Bair received a National Book Award for Samuel Beckett: A Biography (1978). Her biographies of Simone de Beauvoir and C.G. Jung were finalists for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her biographies of Anaïs Nin and Simone de Beauvoir were chosen by The New York Times as “Best Books of the Year”; she is also a literary journalist who writes frequently about travel, feminist issues, and cultural life. A former professor of comparative literature, she writes and lectures internationally. She divides her time mostly between New York and Connecticut. She is a Fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities") <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deirdre_Bair> New York times, Apr. 23, 2020 (Deirdre Bair; born Deirdre Bartolotta June 21, 1935 in Pittsburgh [Pa.], died Friday [Apr. 17] in New Haven, Conn., aged 84; intrepid biographer of Beckett and de Beauvoir; won National Book Award in 1981 for her biography of Samuel Beckett; worked as a reporter for Newsweek and the New Haven Register before earning her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Columbia in 1972) |
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