Male : Playwright, novelist & writer. Nobel Prize 1969. Went to Paris to teach in the late twenties but gave it up when he realised he wasn't suited to teaching. Travelled in Germany and undertook psychotherapy in London before settling in Paris in 1937. Active in the Resistance. From 1946 he wrote in French

Nationality : Irish Place of Birth : Foxrock, Co Dublin

Date of Birth : 1906 Date of Death : 1989 Age : 83

Other Work : Lecturer in French at Trinity College, Dublin

Education : Portora Royal School, Enniskillen & Trinity College, Dublin

Faber unless stated
1929-1930
(Contributes to) Our Exagmination Round his Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress
(1929 Shakespeare & Co, Paris)
[The other writers were - Marcel Brion, Frank Budgen, Stuart Gilbert, Eugene Jolas,
Victor Llona, Robert McAlmon, Thomas McGreevy, Elliot Paul, John Rodker, Robert Sage
& William Carlos Williams, with Letters of Protest by G V L Slingsby & Vladimir Dixon]
Whoroscope (1930 Hours Press) - Ltd Ed 100 signed copies
Whoroscope (1930 Hours Press) - Ltd Ed 300 unsigned copies

1931-1950
Proust (1931 Chatto & Windus) (1957 NY - 250 signed)
More Pricks Than Kicks (1934 Chatto & Windus) - ss
Our Exagmination round his Factification for Incamination of "Work in Progress" (1936)
Murphy : A Novel (1938 Routledge) (1957 Grove Press)
1st UK Edition offered in 1997 for £1350

1951-1960
Molloy : A Novel (1955 Olympia Press, Paris) - 1st Ed in English
Waiting for Godot (1956 Faber 9/6) - play
All That Fall : A Play for Radio (1957 Grove, NY) + a Signed Ltd Ed of 25 copies (1957) - play
Malone Dies (1956 Grove Press) - 500 numbered (1958 John Calder 10/6)
The Collected Shorter Plays (1957 Grove Press, NY)
Endgame (1958 Grove Press) - 100 copies) (1958) - play
From an Abandoned Work (1958) - text
The Unnamable (1958 Grove Press - 100 numbered) (1959 Calder) - text
Molloy, Malone Dies & The Unnamable (1959 Calder 25/-)
Krapp's Last Tape and Embers (1959)
The Trilogy (1960 Calder) - novels

1961-1970
Poems in English (1961 Calder)
Happy Days : A Play in Two Acts (1961 US) (1962)
Watt (1963 Calder) - novel
Play and Two Short Pieces for Radio (1964)
How It Is (1964 Calder) - novel
Proust and Three Dialogues with Georges Duthuit (1965 Calder)
Imagination Dead Imagine (1966 Calder) - text
Come and Go (1967 Calder) - dramaticule. 100 signed
Eh Joe & Other Writings (1967) - play
No's Knife (1967 Calder) - prose
Stories & Texts for Nothing (1967 Grove Press)
Cascando (1968 Grove Press)
Lessness (1970 Calder & Boyers)
The Collected Works (1970 NY)

1971-1975
Film (1972) - screenplay
Breath & Other Short Plays (1972)
The Lost Ones (1972 Calder) (1972 Grove Press) - story
First Love (1973 Calder) (1974 Grove Press) - story
Not I (1973) - play
Mercier and Camier (1974 Calder) - novel

1976-1980
Ends and Odds (1976 Calder) - plays
That Time (1976 Calder) - play
Fizzles (1976 Calder)
Footfalls (1976) - play
Collected Poems in French and English (1977 Calder £4.50)
Four Novellas (1977 Calder)
Six Residua (1978 Calder) - texts
All Strange Way (1979 Calder) - prose
Company (1980 Calder) (1980 NY) - prose. 100 signed

AFTER 1981
Three Occasional Pieces (1982) - plays
ill Seen ill Said (1982 Lord John Press, US - 299 signed copies) (1982 Calder £4.95) - prose
Catastrophe : A Play (1983 Lord John Press) - 100 signed
Worstward Ho (1983 Grove Press) (1983 Calder) - prose
Disjecta (1983 Calder) - texts
Collected Shorter Plays (1984 Calder)
Collected Poems 1930-1978 (1984 Calder)
Collected Shorter Prose 1945-1980 (1984 Calder)
The Complete Dramatic Works (1986)
Stirrings Still (1989)
Nowhow On (1989 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 550 signed & by the artist Robert Ryman
As the Story was Told (1990 Calder & Boyars)
Dream of Fair to Middling Women (1992 Black Cat, Dublin) (1993 John Calder)

OVERSEAS EDITIONS
Our Exagmination Round his Factification for Incamination of "Work in Progress"
(1929 Shakespeare & Co, Paris)
Echo's Bones (1935 Europa Press, Paris) - verse
Molloy (1951 Editions de Minuit, Paris) - 500 numbered copies
Malone Meurt (1951 Editions de Minuit, Paris)
En Attendant Godot (1952 Editions de Minuit, Paris)
+ a Ltd Ed of 35 on Large Paper
L'Innommable (1953 Editions de Minuit, Paris)
Watt (1953 Olympia Press, Paris)
Molloy (1955 Olympia Press)
Fin De Partie (1957 Editions de Minuit, Paris)
The Trilogy (1960 Olympia Press, Paris)
Comment C'Est (1961 Editions de Minuit, Paris)
Imagination Morte Imaginez (1965 Editions de Minuit, Paris) - 612
Sans (1970 Editions de Minuit, Paris)
Mercier et Camier (1970 Editions de Minuit, Paris)
Premier Amour (1971 Editions de Minuit, Paris)
The Lost Ones (1971 Editions de Minuit, Paris)
All Strange Away (1976 Gotham Book Mart, NY) - Edward Gorey
Mirlitonnades (1979 Editions de Minuit, Paris)
Company (1979 Editions de Minuit, Paris)
Quo ou (1983 Editions de Minuit) - 99

LIMITED EDITIONS
How It Is (1964 Calder) - signed edition printed before trade edition
Imagination Dead Imagine (1965 Calder) - signed edition precedes trade edition
No's Knife (1967 Calder) - signed edition precedes trade edition
The Collected Works (Grove Press NY) - 16 vols. 200 numbered and signed sets
Lessness (1970 Calder) Signed edition printed before trade edition
The Lost Ones (1972 Calder) - 100 signed copies, specially bound, in box
The North (1973 Enitharmon Press) - 157 signed, numbered copies
Still (1975 Milan) - 160 copies with etchings by Stanley William Hayter
Fizzles (1977 Petersburg Press, NY) - etchings by Jasper Johns

READING
Raymond Federmann & John Fletcher : Samuel Beckett - His Works & His Critics (1970 California UP)
Hugh Kenner : A Reader's Guide to Samuel Beckett (1973 Thames & Hudson)
Deidre Bair : Samuel Beckett - A Biography (1978 Harcourt Brace)
Lois Gordon : Thw World of Samuel Beckett 1906-1946 (1996 Yale UP £19.95)
James Knowlson : Damned to Fame - The Life of Samuel Beckett (1996 Bloomsbury £25)
Anthony Cronin : Samuel Beckett - The Last Modernist (1996 Harper Collins £25)
Mary Bryden : Samuel Beckett and the Idea of God (1998 Macmillan £42.50)