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Deirdre Bair is the critically acclaimed author of four previous biographies and an additional work of nonfiction. She received the National Book Award for Samuel Beckett: A Biography. Her biographies of Simone de Beauvoir and C. G. Jung were finalists for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her 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. Her last book was Calling it Quits: Late-Life Divorce and Starting Over. Her biography of Saul Steinberg will be published on November 20, 2012, by Nan A. Talese, Doubleday.

She has been awarded fellowships from (among others) the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College.

She 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 but divides her time mostly between New York and Connecticut.

Deirdre Bair is available for lectures and consultations. She also holds personal workshops for one or more students interested in preparing manuscripts for publication in fiction, non-fiction, autobiography, memoir and biography.