| Samuel Beckett  AKA Samuel Barclay Beckett
Born: 13-Apr-1906
Birthplace: Dublin, Ireland
Died: 22-Dec-1989
Location of death: Paris, France
Cause of death: Respiratory failure
Remains: Buried, Cimetière de Montparnasse, Paris, France
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Playwright Nationality: Ireland
Executive summary: Waiting for Godot Military service: French Resistance (WWII) Girlfriend: Peggy Guggenheim (art collector, together 1937)
Wife: Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil (m. 1961, d. 1989)
High School: Portora Royal School
University: BA, Trinity College Dublin (1923-27)
Teacher: Reader, École Normale Supérieure, Paris (1928-30)
Teacher: Lecturer in French, Trinity College Dublin (1930-31)
Nobel Prize for Literature 1969
Risk Factors: Emphysema, Insomnia
Author of books:
Whoroscope (1930, poetry)
More Pricks Than Kicks (1934, short stories)
Echo's Bones (1935, poetry)
Murphy (1938, novel)
Watt (1953, novel)
Stories and Texts for Nothing (1967, short stories)
Wrote plays:
Waiting for Godot (1952)
Endgame (1957)
Embers (1959)
Happy Days (1960)
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