Deirdre Bair: 4 books
Parisian Lives
Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me: A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2019
National Book Award-winning biographer Deirdre Bair explores her fifteen remarkable years in Paris with Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir, painting intimate new portraits of two literary giants and revealing secrets of the biographical art.
In 1971 Deirdre Bair was a journalist and recently...
Al Capone
leven, legende en nalatenschap
Language: Dutch
Release Date: January 25, 2017
De eerste complete biografie met medewerking van Capones familie
Al Capone blijft tot de verbeelding spreken. Iedereen kent hem. Hij was de man die tijdens de drooglegging leidinggaf aan een miljoenenbedrijf van drank, prostitutie en gokhuizen, die gewelddadige vetes uitvocht met...
Saul Steinberg
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
From National Book Award winner Deirdre Bair, the definitive biography of Saul Steinberg, one of The New Yorker's most iconic artists.
The issue date was March 29, 1976. The New Yorker cost 75 cents. And on the cover unfolded Saul Steinberg's vision of the world: New York City, the Hudson River,...
Al Capone
His Life, Legacy, and Legend
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
From a National Book Award-winning biographer, the first complete life of legendary gangster Al Capone to be produced with the cooperation of his family, who provided the author with exclusive access to personal testimony and archival documents.
From his heyday to the present moment, Al Capone—Public...