Samuel Beckett collection, 1953-1964.

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Samuel Beckett collection, 1953-1964.

Manuscripts and correspondence.

.5 linear ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8057802

Boston University. School of Medicine

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Beckett, Samuel Barclay, 1906-1989

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Samuel Barclay Beckett was born on Good Friday, April 13, 1906, in Foxrock, Ireland, near Dublin. He studied modern languages at Trinity College in Dublin and graduated in 1927. The following year, Beckett went to Paris, where he quickly became acquainted with a group of avant-garde artists, including James Joyce. There, Beckett taught English at the École Normale Superieure in Paris for two years before returning to Trinity College to teach French in 1930. He left Trinity College after one year...