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4 unusual facts about Deirdre Bair


Deirdre Bair

She recently published a biography of New Yorker cartoonist and artist Saul Steinberg.

Her biographies of Anaïs 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.

G. R. S. Mead

In her celebrated biography of Jung, Deirdre Bair states that Carl Gustav Jung was also influenced by George Mead, himself owning at least eighteen of Mead's books (Bair, 2003, p. 297), but Sonu Shamdasani, 2005, states otherwise, at p. 100, fn 316.

Under a Glass Bell

Many critics and biographers, such as Deirdre Bair, claim that Under a Glass Bell is Nin's finest work.



see also

Anaïs Nin: A Biography

Biographer Deirdre Bair has also gained notice for her biographies of Simone de Beauvoir, Samuel Beckett and Carl Jung.