Samuel Beckett

Comprehensive information about poet Samuel Beckett including poetry, biographical information, quotes, literary works, and more. Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) 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. His work offers a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human nature, often coupled with black comedy and gallows humour . This educational Samuel Beckett resource has information about the author's life, works, quotations, articles and essays, and more.