Portrait of Samuel Beckett
108th Birthday
108th Birthday
Full name: Samuel Barclay Beckett
Born: April 13, 1906, Foxrock, Republic of Ireland
Died: December 22, 1989, Paris, France
Novelist
Nobel Prize for Literature
Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet, who lived in Paris for most of his adult life and wrote in both English and French.
Books: The Unnamable, Molloy, Malone Dies