The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume 4, 1966-1989

This last volume in the acclaimed edition of The Letters of Samuel Beckett covers the last twenty-four years of Beckett's life. During this time, he continued to produce major plays, won the Nobel Prize, and struggled with his increasing fame and against the privations of old age.

'Here is a book which, as soon as I could get sight of a copy, I could not stop myself reading straight through, nothing being more urgent to me ... The temptation is only to quote. There is so much here of great value to those who study Beckett ... Every word Beckett wrote as only he could write it. That is why, as Dan Gunn says in his excellent introduction to this final volume, though the writing of letters can seem like a diversion from, or even obstruction of, his work, 'the writing of letters is also that work'. Now we can read them. This is a great piece of publication.' David Sexton, The Evening Standard

Craig, George
George Craig, Editor and French Translator, is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Sussex.

Fehsenfeld, Martha Dow
Martha Dow Fehsenfeld, Founding Editor, was authorised by Samuel Beckett to edit his correspondence in 1985.

Gunn, Dan
Dan Gunn, Editor, is Professor of Comparative Literature and English at The American University of Paris.

Overbeck, Lois More
Lois More Overbeck, General Editor, is a Research Associate of the Laney Graduate School, Emory University, Atlanta.