Samuel Beckett

Samuel Barclay Beckett, playwright/novelist/critic, was born at Cooldrinach in Foxrock, County Dublin, on April 13, 1906. He was the second of two sons of a middle-class Protestant couple (his father managed a surveying firm) and grew up away from the rebellion waged nearby. He studied at Earlsfort House in Dublin, and then at Portora Royal School in Enniskillen (where Oscar Wilde had gone). Here he first began to learn French, one of the two languages in which he would write. When he graduated from Trinity College he travelled to Paris where he became friend and assistant to James Joyce. It was during this time that he began writing. His major works include Waiting for Godot, the trilogy Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable, Endgame, Krapp's Last Tape and Happy Days among others. In 1969 he was the third Irishman awarded the Nobel Prize. He died on December 22, 1989

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