Deirdre Bair





Deirdre Bair

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Deirdre Bair won the National Book Award for Samuel Beckett: A Biography. Her biographies of Simone de Beauvoir and Carl Jung were finalists for The Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Bairs biographies of Anais Nin and Simone de Beauvoir were chosen by The New York Times as "Best Books of the Year," and her biography of Jung won the Gradiva Award from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis.

Deirdre is a literary journalist who writes frequently about travel, feminist issues, and cultural life. A former professor of Comparative Literature, she writes and lectures internationally, and has returned as visiting faculty member at Bennington College for Spring 2011.

Deirdre Bair is currently working on a biography of New Yorker...more


Average rating: 3.93 · 6,682 ratings · 307 reviews · 10 distinct works
Anaïs Nin: A Biography
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 242 ratings — published 1995 — 6 editions
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Simone de Beauvoir: A Biogr...
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 133 ratings10 editions
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Samuel Beckett: A Biography
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 119 ratings8 editions
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Jung: A Biography
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2003 — 7 editions
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Calling It Quits: Late-Life...
2.88 of 5 stars 2.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2007
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Saul Steinberg: A Biography
0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — expected publication 2012 — 2 editions
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The Second Sex
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3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 6,702 ratings — published 1949 — 47 editions
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The Awakening
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3.58 of 5 stars 3.58 avg rating — 49,776 ratings — published 1899 — 167 editions
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Samuel Beckett's Novel Watt
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4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1985
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A Cafe in Space: The Anais ...
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5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010 — 2 editions
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