Background
Bair, Deirdre B. was born on June 21, 1935 in Monongahela, Pennsylvania, United States. Daughter of Vincent John and Helen (Kruki) Bartolotta.
writer English language educator
Bair, Deirdre B. was born on June 21, 1935 in Monongahela, Pennsylvania, United States. Daughter of Vincent John and Helen (Kruki) Bartolotta.
Bachelor with honors, University of Pennsylvania, 1957; Master of Arts with honors, Columbia University, 1969; Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1972.
She is the author of six works of nonfiction. Her most recent book, Calling lieutenant Quits, examines late-life divorce and starting over and has been profiled on Columbia Broadcasting System’s The Early Show, National Broadcasting Company"s The Today Show, the Brian Lehrer radio show and on Canadian Broadcasting Company Canada. She recently published a biography of New Yorker cartoonist and artist Saul Steinberg.
She has been awarded fellowships from (among others) the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (then named the Bunting Institute).
She is a literary journalist who writes frequently about travel, feminist issue, and cultural life. A former professor of comparative literature, she writes and lectures internationally.
She divides her time mostly between New York and Connecticut.
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Member Modern Language Association, American Council for Irish Studies (nominating committee since 1986), National Organization for Women, Simone de Beauvoir Society (national vice president since 1984).
Married Lavon Henry Bair, May 29, 1957. Children: Vonn Scott, Katherine Tracy.