Deirdre Bair

Fascinating... Wonderfully entertaining and absorbing - Sunday Times Gripping... A story well told. - New York Times Book Review Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography 2020 In 1971, Deirdre Bair was a journalist with a recently acquired PhD who managed to secure access to Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett. He agreed that she could write his biography despite never...

From the National Book Award-winning biographer, the first complete life of legendary gangster Al Capone to be written with the cooperation of his family, who provided the author with exclusive access to personal testimony and archives. At the height of Prohibition, Al Capone loomed large as Public Enemy Number One — his multimillion-dollar Chicago Outfit dominated organized crime, and law...