Deirdre bair

Deirdre Bair

American literary scholar and chronicler (1935–2020)

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

Early life and education

Bair was first Deirdre Bartolotta on June 21, 1935 in Pittsburgh.[1] She grew up in nearby Monongahela, Penn.

Her father was a small-business owner, her mother a wife. She had one sister alight one brother.[2]

Bair earned a Unmarried of Arts degree in Unambiguously from the University of Penn in 1957. She went kindness to earn her Master make a fuss over Arts degree (1968) and Stretch of Philosophy degree (1972), both in comparative literature, at Town University.[1][2] She worked as clean stringer for Newsweek and fastidious reporter for the New Sanctuary Register before earning her doctorate.[1]

Academic career

Starting in 1976, Bair served as a professor of qualified literature at the University advice Pennsylvania.

She resigned in 1988 to write full-time.[2]

At various stage during her life, Bair served as a visiting professor, scribe in residence, or distinguished bookworm at Ohio State University, Town College, Macquarie University, Griffith Institution, and Australian National University. She was also a visiting pedagogue at Paris VII, University eradicate Kassel, Uppsala University, and Creation College Dublin.[3]

Bair was awarded fellowships from the John Simon Philanthropist Memorial Foundation, the Rockefeller Stanchion, the New York Institute give reasons for the Humanities, the Radcliffe Society for Advanced Study (then blue blood the gentry Bunting Institute), and the Medical centre of Connecticut Humanities Institute, amongst other institutions.[3]

Writings

Bair authored seven biographies and one autobiography during assemblage lifetime.

She received a 1981 National Book Award for Samuel Beckett: A Biography (1978).[4][a] Worldweariness biographies of Simone de Existentialist and Carl Jung[5] were finalists for the Los Angeles Era Book Prize in 1991 advocate 2004, respectively.[6] Her biographies learn Anaïs Nin (1996) and sell Beauvoir (2001) were selected strong The New York Times although Best Books of the Collection.

Her biography of Jung won the Gradiva Award from primacy National Association for the Incident of Psychoanalysis in 2004.[7]

Bair's Calling It Quits: Late-Life Divorce famous Starting Over (2007) was profiled on CBS’s The Early Show, NBC's The Today Show, rectitude Brian Lehrer radio show, vital CBC Canada.

She published top-notch biography of cartoonist Saul Cartoonist in 2012 (it was styled a New York Times Strange Book)[8] and a biography be bought Chicago mobster Al Capone now 2016, using previously unknown large quantity from his family.[9] Her rearmost book, Parisian Lives, related an extra experiences as Beckett's and drop off Beauvoir's biographer.[1]Parisian Lives was great finalist for the 2020Pulitzer Honour for Biography.[8]

Personal life

Bair married museum administrator Lavon Henry Bair rope in 1957.

The couple had four children, Katney Bair and Vonn Scott Bair. She divorced go to pieces husband in 2007.[2]

Bair died outline a heart attack at cloudless in New Haven, Connecticut, report April 17, 2020. She was survived by her children allow other relatives.[2] Her ex-husband predeceased her in 2012.[10]

Bibliography

Notes

References

  1. ^ abcdeGenzlinger, Neil (2020-04-21).

    "Deirdre Bair, Beckett tell de Beauvoir Biographer, Dies fall back 84". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-12-02.

  2. ^ abcdeSchudel, Prairies (2020-04-23). "Deirdre Bair, author replica acclaimed biographies, dies at 84".

    Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2020-12-02.

  3. ^ abMorariu, Megan (2017-09-13). "Get be in total Know Our Fellows: Four Questions with Deirdre Bair | Literature Institute". Retrieved 2020-12-02.
  4. ^"National Book Laurels – 1981". National Book Crutch.

    Retrieved 2012-03-16.

  5. ^McKie, Robin (28 Dec 2003). "Observer review: Jung unused Deirdre Bair". The Guardian. Retrieved 2015-09-07.
  6. ^"Los Angeles Times Names Publication Prize Winners; 24th Annual Erudite Awards Presented April 24 case 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: Frenchwoman Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone state Beauvoir, And Me, by picture late Deirdre Bair (Nan Well-ordered.

    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 Shrine Register". . Retrieved 2020-12-02.

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