num_pages: 832
description: A scholar draws on his twenty-year friendship with Beckett, who specifically asked him to write his biography, more than 100 interviews, and extensive research to produce a complete and intimate portrait of the legendary Nobel Prize-winning playwright. Reprint.
language: English
title: Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett
titlecomplete: Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett
genres: Biography, Literary Criticism, Theatre, Ireland, France, History, Irish Literature, Nonfiction, Biography Memoir, Literature
ratings_count: 545
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Whitbread Award
category: Biography
publisher: Touchstone Books