Dramatist and author. Born Dublin as Samuel Barclay Beckett. Lived in Paris most of his life. His plays include: Waiting for Godot (1953) and Krapp's Last Tape (1958). Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969, the only Nobel literature laureate to have played first class cricket.
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Samuel Beckett
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Samuel Beckett
From English Heritage: Beckett lived here "for seven months in 1934 while und...
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Robert Graves
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Dick Whittington
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