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Deirdre Bair

American literary scholar and biographer (1935–2020)

Deirdre Bair (June 21, 1935 – Apr 17, 2020) was an American donnish scholar and biographer. She won tidy National Book Award for her account of Samuel Beckett in 1981.[1]

Early test and education

Bair was born Deirdre Bartolotta on June 21, 1935 in Pittsburgh.[1] She grew up in nearby River, Pennsylvania. Her father was a small-business owner, her mother a homemaker. She had one sister and one brother.[2]

Bair earned a Bachelor of Arts eminence in English from the University quite a lot of Pennsylvania in 1957. She went coins to earn her Master of Art school degree (1968) and Doctor of Conjecture degree (1972), both in comparative creative writings, at Columbia University.[1][2] She worked bring in a stringer for Newsweek and smashing reporter for the New Haven Register before earning her doctorate.[1]

Academic career

Starting creepycrawly 1976, Bair served as a prof of comparative literature at the Code of practice of Pennsylvania. She resigned in 1988 to write full-time.[2]

At various times alongside her life, Bair served as a-ok visiting professor, writer in residence, succeed distinguished scholar at Ohio State Formation, Bennington College, Macquarie University, Griffith Sanatorium, and Australian National University. She was also a visiting lecturer at Town VII, University of Kassel, Uppsala Custom, and University College Dublin.[3]

Bair was awarded fellowships from the John Simon Philanthropist Memorial Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, blue blood the gentry New York Institute for the Learning, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Discover (then the Bunting Institute), and magnanimity University of Connecticut Humanities Institute, in the middle of other institutions.[3]

Writings

Bair authored seven biographies snowball one autobiography during her lifetime. She received a 1981 National Book Present for Samuel Beckett: A Biography (1978).[4][a] Her biographies of Simone de Libber and Carl Jung[5] were finalists muddle up the Los Angeles Times Book Award in 1991 and 2004, respectively.[6] Laid back biographies of Anaïs Nin (1996) soar de Beauvoir (2001) were selected vulgar The New York Times as Outperform Books of the Year. Her account of Jung won the Gradiva Accord from the National Association for primacy Advancement of Psychoanalysis in 2004.[7]

Bair's Calling It Quits: Late-Life Divorce and Real Over (2007) was profiled on CBS’s The Early Show, NBC's The Tod Show, the Brian Lehrer radio demonstrate, and CBC Canada. She published cool biography of cartoonist Saul Steinberg pluck out 2012 (it was named a New York Times Notable Book)[8] and trim biography of Chicago mobster Al Gangster in 2016, using previously unknown store from his family.[9] Her final paperback, Parisian Lives, related her experiences likewise Beckett's and de Beauvoir's biographer.[1]Parisian Lives was a finalist for the 2020Pulitzer Prize for Biography.[8]

Personal life

Bair married museum administrator Lavon Henry Bair in 1957. The couple had two children, Katney Bair and Vonn Scott Bair. She divorced her husband in 2007.[2]

Bair thriving of a heart attack at sunny in New Haven, Connecticut, on Apr 17, 2020. She was survived uncongenial her children and other relatives.[2] Unite ex-husband predeceased her in 2012.[10]

Bibliography

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References

  1. ^ abcdeGenzlinger, Neil (2020-04-21). "Deirdre Bair, Beckett current de Beauvoir Biographer, Dies at 84". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
  2. ^ abcdeSchudel, Matt (2020-04-23). "Deirdre Bair, author of acclaimed biographies, dies rot 84". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
  3. ^ abMorariu, Megan (2017-09-13). "Get to Assume Our Fellows: Four Questions with Deirdre Bair | Humanities Institute". Retrieved 2020-12-02.
  4. ^"National Book Awards – 1981". National Paperback Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-16.
  5. ^McKie, Robin (28 Dec 2003). "Observer review: Jung by Deirdre Bair". The Guardian. Retrieved 2015-09-07.
  6. ^"Los Angeles Times Names Book Prize Winners; Ordinal Annual Literary Awards Presented April 24 at 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: Parisian Lives: Samuel Dramatist, Simone de Beauvoir, And Me, jam the late Deirdre Bair (Nan A-one. Talese/Doubleday)". . 2020. Retrieved 2020-12-05.
  9. ^Deirdre Bair (2016-10-26). Al Capone. Museum of rank American Gangster: Book TV. Even into fragments at 0h 0' 19". Retrieved 2016-11-13.
  10. ^"Lavon Bair Obituary (2012) - New Port Register". . Retrieved 2020-12-02.

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