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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

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Average rating: 3.93 · 6,682 ratings · 307 reviews · 10 distinct works

	Anaïs Nin: A Biography 3.86 avg rating — 242 ratings — published 1995 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Simone de Beauvoir: A Biography 3.89 avg rating — 133 ratings — 10 editions	My rating:
	Samuel Beckett: A Biography 3.88 avg rating — 119 ratings — 8 editions	My rating:
	Jung: A Biography 4.06 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2003 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Calling It Quits: Late-Life Divorce and Starting Over 2.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	Saul Steinberg: A Biography 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — expected publication 2012 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir, H.M. Parshley (Translator & Editor), Deirdre Bair (Introduction) 3.93 avg rating — 6,702 ratings — published 1949 — 47 editions	My rating:
	The Awakening by Kate Chopin, Deirdre Bair 3.58 avg rating — 49,776 ratings — published 1899 — 167 editions	My rating:
	Samuel Beckett's Novel Watt by Gottfried Buttner, Joseph Dolan (Translator), Deirdre Bair (Introduction) 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1985	My rating:
	A Cafe in Space: The Anais Nin Literary Journal, Vol. 7 by Anaïs Nin, Deirdre Bair, John Ferrone 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating: