Deirdre Bair, Literature
Bair is a writer, independent scholar, and a former professor of Comparative Literature. She is the author of four biographies on Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, Anais Nin, and C.G. Jung. Among her honors are the National Book Award (Beckett), The New York Times "Best Books of the Year" (de Beauvoir) and "Notable Books of the Year" (Nin, Jung), twice a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (de Beauvoir, Jung), and in 2004, the recipient of the NAAP (National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis) Gradiva Award for best biography of the year (Jung). Her new book, Calling it Quits: Late-Life Divorce and Starting Over, will be published in early 2007 by Random House. She has held fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations and the Mary Ingraham Bunting Foundation at Harvard and has written and lectured on a wide variety of subjects from literature to travel, women's studies, and intellectual and cultural history. She has also been a visiting faculty member and writer in residence at universities in Europe, Australia and New Zealand as well as the United States. Bair will be a visiting faculty member at Bennington for the fall of 2006.
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