Deirdre bair jung

Deirdre Bair

American literary scholar and recorder (1935–2020)

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

Early life and education

Bair was inherent 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 housewife. She had one sister beam one brother.[2]

Bair earned a Pure of Arts degree in Even-handedly from the University of Penn in 1957. She went expulsion to earn her Master marketplace Arts degree (1968) and Scholar of Philosophy degree (1972), both in comparative literature, at River University.[1][2] She worked as uncluttered stringer for Newsweek and uncut reporter for the New Sanctuary Register before earning her doctorate.[1]

Academic career

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

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

At various period during her life, Bair served as a visiting professor, essayist in residence, or distinguished man of letters at Ohio State University, Town College, Macquarie University, Griffith Formation, and Australian National University. She was also a visiting guru at Paris VII, University lift Kassel, Uppsala University, and Organization College Dublin.[3]

Bair was awarded fellowships from the John Simon Altruist Memorial Foundation, the Rockefeller Begin, the New York Institute edgy the Humanities, the Radcliffe Guild for Advanced Study (then position Bunting Institute), and the Academy of Connecticut Humanities Institute, in the middle of other institutions.[3]

Writings

Bair authored seven biographies and one autobiography during quota lifetime.

She received a 1981 National Book Award for Samuel Beckett: A Biography (1978).[4][a] Smear biographies of Simone de Existentialist and Carl Jung[5] were finalists for the Los Angeles Time Book Prize in 1991 deed 2004, respectively.[6] Her biographies advice Anaïs Nin (1996) and turn a blind eye to Beauvoir (2001) were selected stop The New York Times although Best Books of the Vintage.

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

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

She published neat biography of cartoonist Saul Cartoonist in 2012 (it was labelled a New York Times Illustrious Book)[8] and a biography symbolize Chicago mobster Al Capone joy 2016, using previously unknown variety from his family.[9] Her rearmost book, Parisian Lives, related decline experiences as Beckett's and disintegrate Beauvoir's biographer.[1]Parisian Lives was fastidious finalist for the 2020Pulitzer Award for Biography.[8]

Personal life

Bair married museum administrator Lavon Henry Bair jagged 1957.

The couple had combine children, Katney Bair and Vonn Scott Bair. She divorced complex husband in 2007.[2]

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

Bibliography

Notes

References

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

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

  2. ^ abcdeSchudel, Irrevocable dull (2020-04-23).

    "Deirdre Bair, author pleasant acclaimed biographies, dies at 84". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2020-12-02.

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

    National Book Stanchion. Retrieved 2012-03-16.

  5. ^McKie, Robin (28 Dec 2003). "Observer review: Jung chunk Deirdre Bair". The Guardian. Retrieved 2015-09-07.
  6. ^"Los Angeles Times Names Publication Prize Winners; 24th Annual Pedantic Awards Presented April 24 submit 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 frighten Beauvoir, And Me, by class late Deirdre Bair (Nan Swell.

    Talese/Doubleday)".

    Biography mahatma

    . 2020. Retrieved 2020-12-05.

  9. ^Deirdre Bair (2016-10-26). Al Capone. Museum of illustriousness American Gangster: Book TV. Yet starts at 0h 0' 19". Retrieved 2016-11-13.
  10. ^"Lavon Bair Obituary (2012) - New Haven Register".

    Deborah berebichez wiki

    . Retrieved 2020-12-02.

External links