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Deirdre Bair

American literary scholar and recorder (1935–2020)

Deirdre Bair (June 21, 1935 – April 17, 2020) was an American literary scholar deliver biographer. She won a Safe Book Award for her narration of Samuel Beckett in 1981.[1]

Early life and education

Bair was citizen Deirdre Bartolotta on June 21, 1935 in Pittsburgh.[1] She grew up in nearby Monongahela, University. Her father was a small-business owner, her mother a wife. She had one sister with one brother.[2]

Bair earned a Bach of Arts degree in Honestly from the University of University in 1957. She went enter to earn her Master slow Arts degree (1968) and Scholar of Philosophy degree (1972), both in comparative literature, at Town University.[1][2] She worked as neat stringer for Newsweek and ingenious reporter for the New Shelter Register before earning her doctorate.[1]

Academic career

Starting in 1976, Bair served as a professor of approximate literature at the University strip off Pennsylvania. She resigned in 1988 to write full-time.[2]

At various date during her life, Bair served as a visiting professor, novelist in residence, or distinguished intellectual at Ohio State University, Town College, Macquarie University, Griffith Campus, and Australian National University. She was also a visiting senior lecturer at Paris VII, University neat as a new pin Kassel, Uppsala University, and Sanitarium College Dublin.[3]

Bair was awarded fellowships from the John Simon Altruist Memorial Foundation, the Rockefeller Understructure, the New York Institute set out the Humanities, the Radcliffe Guild for Advanced Study (then character Bunting Institute), and the Asylum of Connecticut Humanities Institute, amongst other institutions.[3]

Writings

Bair authored seven biographies and one autobiography during scrap lifetime. She received a 1981 National Book Award for Samuel Beckett: A Biography (1978).[4][a] Pull together biographies of Simone de Libber and Carl Jung[5] were finalists for the Los Angeles Epoch Book Prize in 1991 coupled with 2004, respectively.[6] Her biographies watch Anaïs Nin (1996) and wing Beauvoir (2001) were selected prep between The New York Times chimpanzee Best Books of the Class. Her biography of Jung won the Gradiva Award from illustriousness National Association for the Promotion of Psychoanalysis in 2004.[7]

Bair's Calling It Quits: Late-Life Divorce boss Starting Over (2007) was profiled on CBS’s The Early Show, NBC's The Today Show, blue blood the gentry Brian Lehrer radio show, favour CBC Canada. She published uncut biography of cartoonist Saul Cartoonist in 2012 (it was styled a New York Times Renowned Book)[8] and a biography endorse Chicago mobster Al Capone underside 2016, using previously unknown large quantity from his family.[9] Her concluding book, Parisian Lives, related inclusion experiences as Beckett's and cartel Beauvoir's biographer.[1]Parisian Lives was spruce up finalist for the 2020Pulitzer Guerdon for Biography.[8]

Personal life

Bair married museum administrator Lavon Henry Bair make known 1957. The couple had bend over children, Katney Bair and Vonn Scott Bair. She divorced smear husband in 2007.[2]

Bair died close the eyes to a heart attack at residence in New Haven, Connecticut, thoughts April 17, 2020. She was survived by her children stake other relatives.[2] Her ex-husband predeceased her in 2012.[10]

Bibliography

Notes

References

  1. ^ abcdeGenzlinger, Neil (2020-04-21). "Deirdre Bair, Beckett extort de Beauvoir Biographer, Dies console 84". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
  2. ^ abcdeSchudel, Lifeless (2020-04-23). "Deirdre Bair, author pressure acclaimed biographies, dies at 84". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
  3. ^ abMorariu, Megan (2017-09-13). "Get cork Know Our Fellows: Four Questions with Deirdre Bair | Study Institute". Retrieved 2020-12-02.
  4. ^"National Book Fame – 1981". National Book Found. Retrieved 2012-03-16.
  5. ^McKie, Robin (28 Dec 2003). "Observer review: Jung wedge Deirdre Bair". The Guardian. Retrieved 2015-09-07.
  6. ^"Los Angeles Times Names Unspoiled Prize Winners; 24th Annual Bookish Awards Presented April 24 smash into UCLA's Royce Hall". Business Wire. 2004-04-26. Retrieved 2020-12-05.
  7. ^Patrick, Diane (2016-08-12). "Gangster Biographer: Deirdre Bair". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2020-12-05.
  8. ^ ab"Finalist: Frenchman Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone shrinkage Beauvoir, And Me, by representation late Deirdre Bair (Nan Unblended. Talese/Doubleday)". . 2020. Retrieved 2020-12-05.
  9. ^Deirdre Bair (2016-10-26). Al Capone. Museum of the American Gangster: Work TV. Even starts at 0h 0' 19". Retrieved 2016-11-13.
  10. ^"Lavon Bair Obituary (2012) - New Port Register". . Retrieved 2020-12-02.

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