"He was very musical and enjoyed playing piano duets with a friend, David Owen Williams, who later became a director in the Guinness Brewery, and his son, John, and his nephew, Samuel Beckett. John's twin Ann later pioneered the profession of occupational therapy in Ireland becoming the country's first professionally qualified practitioner. and his older brother Peter became the first Professor of Psychiatry in Trinity College Dublin and later the Dean of Medicine at Trinity. John Beckett attended St. Columba's College, Dublin, where he was taught music by Joe Groocock, whom he admired little short of idolatry, and who furthered"
"in Literature ""for his writing, which—in new forms for the novel and drama—in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation"". He was elected Saoi of Aosdána in 1984. Samuel Beckett was born in Dublin on Good Friday, 13 April 1906, to William Frank Beckett, a quantity surveyor and descendant of the Huguenots, and Maria Jones Roe, a nurse, when both were 35. They had married in 1901. Beckett had one older brother, Frank Edward Beckett (1902–1954). At the age of five, Beckett attended a local playschool in Dublin, where he started to learn music, and then moved to Earlsfort"
"and Samuel Beckett. Schopenhauer was born on 22 February 1788, in the city of Danzig (then part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth; present day Gdańsk, Poland) on Heiligegeistgasse (known in the present day as Św. Ducha 47), the son of Johanna Schopenhauer (née Trosiener) and Heinrich Floris Schopenhauer, both descendants of wealthy German-Dutch patrician families. Both of them weren't very religious, supported the French Revolution, were republican, cosmopolitan and Anglophile. When Danzig became part of Prussia in 1793, Heinrich moved to Hamburg - a free city with republican constitution, protected by Britain and Holland against Prussian aggression - although his firm"
"Samuel Beckett Samuel Barclay Beckett (; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, poet, and literary translator who lived in Paris for most of his adult life. He wrote in both English and French. Beckett's work offers a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human existence, often coupled with black comedy and gallows humor, and became increasingly minimalist in his later career. He is considered one of the last modernist writers, and one of the key figures in what Martin Esslin called the ""Theatre of the Absurd"". Beckett was awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize"
"Sam Beckett Dr. Samuel ""Sam"" Beckett is a fictional character and the protagonist on the science fiction television series ""Quantum Leap"", played by Scott Bakula. Initially, the audience knows very little about Sam, much as Sam knows little about himself due to holes in his memory dubbed the ""Swiss cheese effect."" Sam Beckett was born at 12:30 pm EST on August 8, 1953, in Elk Ridge, Indiana to dairy farmer John Samuel Beckett and his wife Thelma Louise Beckett. As a child, he had two cats, named Donner and Blitzen, but never had a dog. Sam was a child prodigy,"
"Samuel Beckett to European filmmakers Robert Bresson, Jacques Rivette and Michelangelo Antonioni. In 1984, ""Strange Invaders"" won the Saturn Award for Best Screenplay and was nominated for Best Film at the Avoriaz Fantasy Film Festival. Laughlin was brought up in Minonk, Illinois, where his father Donnald M. Laughlin had extensive farms. He played basketball and studied law at college. During his first few days in California he met the Dean Martin family and other movie stars, which had a lasting effect on him. His mother Hazel Stoddard Laughlin died in 1965. During the late 1960s he lived in London, where"
"Simon Beckett Simon Beckett (born 20 April 1960 in Sheffield, England) is a British journalist and author. His books, in particular the crime series around forensic anthropologist Dr David Hunter, have sold 21 million of copies worldwide, and enjoyed particular success in Germany and Scandinavia. Simon Beckett was born on 20 April 1960 in Sheffield, UK, to a working-class background. After earning a Master of Arts degree in English, Beckett taught in Spain and played in several bands before becoming a freelance journalist. He has written for ""The Times"", ""The Independent on Sunday"", ""The Daily Telegraph"" and ""The Observer"", amongst"
"in Sheffield, England. Beckett's novels are very popular in Europe; by 2010 he had sold over four million books outside of the United Kingdom and in the same year had outsold J K Rowling and Ian McEwan in Continental Europe. Simon Beckett Simon Beckett (born 20 April 1960 in Sheffield, England) is a British journalist and author. His books, in particular the crime series around forensic anthropologist Dr David Hunter, have sold 21 million of copies worldwide, and enjoyed particular success in Germany and Scandinavia. Simon Beckett was born on 20 April 1960 in Sheffield, UK, to a working-class background."
"words smelt of tar, spunyarn, sound commonsense and humour."" The author, Commander Geoffrey Lowis RN, included a chapter on Beckett whom he thought a great character. Much of this article is drawn from that book. Beckett was born in Bilaspur in the Central Provinces of India on 25 March 1893. He was the younger son of Brigadier-General William Thomas Clifford Beckett CBE, DSO, VD (1862–1956) and Bessie Drummond Thomason, daughter of Major-General Charles Simeon Thomason (1833–1911) of the Bengal Royal Engineers. His older brother Clifford became Major-General Clifford Thomason Beckett CB, CBE, MC (1891–1972) of the Royal Artillery, who had"
"around the world. Significant collections include those at the Harry Ransom Center, Washington University, the University of Reading, Trinity College, Dublin, and Houghton Library. Given the scattered nature of these collections, an effort has been made to create a digital repository through the University of Antwerp. Theatre Radio Television Cinema Novels Short prose Non-fiction Samuel Beckett Samuel Barclay Beckett (; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, poet, and literary translator who lived in Paris for most of his adult life. He wrote in both English and French. Beckett's work offers a"
"William à Beckett was born at Kensington on 7 July 1833, and educated at King's College London, and at Downing College, Cambridge, where he was a Fellow Commoner. He was also called to the English Inner Temple and New South Wales bars. He married, in September 1855, Emma, only child and heiress of John Mills, of Melbourne. Notably he is the father of the Australian painter Emma Minnie Boyd who married another painter Arthur Merric Boyd, to be the first members of many generations of artists, the Boyd family. à Beckett became a magistrate of the colony of Victoria in"
"way to becoming the most unlikely and famous art critic in the history of television."" As of September 2018, segments of these shows are still being aired on some PBS channels in the U.S. Beckett was born in South Africa, and raised in Edinburgh, Scotland, where her father was studying medicine. In 1946, she entered the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, a Roman Catholic congregation of Religious Sisters dedicated to education. She was sent to England where she completed her novitiate and then studied at St Anne's College, Oxford where she was awarded a congratulatory first class honours degree"
"Lady Says No!"" (1929), and ""The Moon in the Yellow River"" (1931). While there no doubt that Samuel Beckett is an Irishman he lived much of his life in France and wrote several works first in French. His most famous plays are ""Waiting for Godot"" (1955) (originally ""En attendant Godot"", 1952), ""Endgame"" (originally ""Fin de partie"") (1957), ""Happy Days"" (1961), written in English, all of which profoundly affected British drama. In 1954, Behan's first play ""The Quare Fellow"" was produced in Dublin. It was well received; however, it was the 1956 production at Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop in Stratford, London,"
"Larry Beckett Larry Beckett (born 4 April 1947) is an American poet, songwriter, and literary critic. As a songwriter and music arranger, Beckett collaborated with Tim Buckley in the late-1960s on several songs and albums, including ""Song to the Siren"" which has been recorded by many artists. Beckett was born in Glendale, California where his father was an English and speech teacher and his mother worked in the career counseling industry. The Becketts moved around for the first decade of Larry Beckett's life, first to Ashland, Oregon, then back down south to Downey, California and eventually settling in nearby Anaheim"
"Gilbert Arthur à Beckett Gilbert Arthur à Beckett (1837 – October 15, 1891) was an English writer. Beckett was born at Portland House Hammersmith, on 7 April 1837, the eldest son of the civil servant and humorist Gilbert Abbott à Beckett and the composer Mary Anne à Beckett, daughter of Joseph Glossop, clerk of the cheque to the hon. corps of gentlemen-at-arms. His brother was Arthur William à Beckett. He graduated from Christ Church, Oxford, as a Westminster scholar in 1860. He was entered at Lincoln's Inn on 15 October 1857, but gave his attention chiefly to drama, producing ""Diamonds"
"in the publication of one of his stories in Sartre's journal ""Les Temps Modernes"". Beckett said, though he liked ""Nausea"", he generally found the writing style of Sartre and Heidegger to be ""too philosophical"" and he considered himself ""not a philosopher"". The ""Absurd"" or ""New Theater"" movement was originally a Paris-based (and a Rive Gauche) avant-garde phenomenon tied to extremely small theaters in the Quartier Latin. Some of the Absurdists, such as Jean Genet, Jean Tardieu, and Boris Vian., were born in France. Many other Absurdists were born elsewhere but lived in France, writing often in French: Samuel Beckett from"
"John Beckett (politician) John Warburton Beckett (11 October 1894 – 28 December 1964) was a leading figure in British politics between the world wars, both in the Labour Party and in fascist movements. Beckett was born in Hammersmith, London, the son of William Beckett, a draper, and his wife Dorothy (née Salmon), who had been born into Judaism but abandoned the faith to marry Beckett. According to his son Francis he was christened Jack William Beckett but assumed the name John Warburton Beckett in 1918. He was educated at Latymer Upper School until the age of 14 when his father"
"William Beckett (Australian politician) William James Beckett CBE (10 June 1870 – 7 May 1965) was an Australian politician. Born in Prahran to Irish-born taxi proprietor Samuel Beckett and Scottish-born Margaret Cameron, he attended both state and private schools before becoming a second-hand furniture dealer at Fitzroy with his brother Henry. On 22 February 1893 he married Alice Maud Street, with whom he had two children. In 1914 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council as Labor member for Melbourne North; that year he was also elected to Fitzroy City Council, where he would serve until 1932 (mayor 1921–22,"
"be one of the most important young voices in French theatre, and heir apparent to the legacy left by post-war playwrights such as Samuel Beckett, Jean Cocteau and Jean Genet. His plays have since become staples on the modern repertory around the world, having been translated into more than 36 languages. Born in 1948 to a middle-class family in Metz, his life was violent and anchored in revolt. He tried his hand at writing at a very young age but later renounced it, and didn't take to the stage until the age of twenty after seeing the film actress María"
"Beckett was born in Mottingham, London. He has four brothers. He went to Coopers School in Chislehurst with comedian Tom Allen. Beckett started performing stand-up in 2009 and quickly enjoyed success in all of the new comedian competitions winning four in his first year. His consistently impressive performances resulted in coming third in ""So You Think You're Funny,"" and winning the Amused Moose Laugh-Off which earned him an invitation to perform at the Adelaide Fringe Festival in Australia. In Adelaide, Beckett was nominated for the best newcomer award. He made his debut at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2012 with"
"ranging from 15 to 17, among other tales. In actuality, he was born at the Cambridge Hospital (renamed Mount Auburn Hospital in 1947) and raised in nearby Watertown, Massachusetts, with his parents Robert Maxwell Everett and Elaine Grace Brown Everett, and his sister Elizabeth, born in 1915. His 300-year-old New England family included Everett, Massachusetts' namesake, Edward Everett, who after serving as president of Harvard University became governor of Massachusetts and, in 1852, the U.S. Secretary of State. It also includes Edward's son, Massachusetts Congressman William Everett; and the poet William Blake. Everett's father ran a successful trucking business, and"
"off epileptic seizures. Groucho Marx declared Abbott to be the best straight man in the comedy business. Abbott was born in Asbury Park, New Jersey on October 2, 1897, into a show business family. His parents, Rae Fisher and Harry Abbott, had worked for the Barnum and Bailey Circus.<ref name=""http://www.biography.com/people/bud-abbott-20617237""></ref> Several years after the family relocated to Brooklyn, Abbott dropped out of grammar school and began working summers with his father at Dreamland Park on Coney Island. When he was 15, Abbott signed on as a cabin boy on a Norwegian steamer but was soon forced to shovel coal. He"
"William Shakespeare William Shakespeare (bapt. 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the ""Bard of Avon"". His extant works, including collaborations, consist of approximately 39 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire."
"Sir Edmund Beckett, 4th Baronet Sir Edmund Beckett-Denison, 4th Baronet (28 January 1787 – 24 May 1874) was railway promoter and politician who was born at Gledhow Hall, in Leeds, on 29 January 1787. The son of the banker Sir John Beckett, 1st Baronet (1743–1826), and his wife, Mary, whose father was Christopher Wilson, Bishop of Bristol. On 14 December 1814 Beckett married Maria, daughter of William Beverley of Beverley; she was the great-niece and heiress of Anne, daughter of Roundell Smithson, and widow of Sir Thomas Denison, judge of the king's bench. Among their children were Edmund Beckett, 1st"
"Walter Beckett (composer) Walter Beckett (27 July 1914 – 3 April 1996) was an Irish composer, teacher and music critic – and a cousin of the writer Samuel Beckett. Beckett was born in Dublin. He studied organ with George Hewson and harmony with John F. Larchet at the Royal Irish Academy of Music (RIAM), in addition to music at Trinity College Dublin where he was conferred with a Mus.D. (Doctor of Music) in 1942. He lived from 1946 to 1963 in Venice, where he taught English and piano; he also wrote reviews from abroad for the Irish Times and made"
"wealth of ideas and artistic power"". He is noted for his non-fiction book ""Crowds and Power"", among other works. Born in 1905 to businessman Jacques Canetti and Mathilde ""née"" Arditti in Ruse, a city on the Danube in Bulgaria, Canetti was the eldest of three sons. His ancestors were Sephardi Jews. His paternal ancestors settled in Ruse from Ottoman Adrianople. The original family name was ""Cañete"", named after Cañete, Cuenca, a village in Spain. In Ruse, Canetti's father and grandfather were successful merchants who operated out of a commercial building, which they had built in 1898. Canetti's mother descended from"
"Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe, QC (12 May 1816 – 29 April 1905), known previously as Sir Edmund Beckett, 5th Baronet and Edmund Beckett Denison, was a ""lawyer, mechanician and controversialist"" as well as a noted horologist and architect. Beckett was born at Carlton Hall Nottinghamshire, England, and was the eldest son of Sir Edmund Beckett, 4th Baronet, MP for the West Riding of Yorkshire. He was educated at Doncaster Grammar School for Boys (briefly), then Eton, and went on to read mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated in the 1838 Tripos with"
"buried in St Kilda Cemetery. William Beckett (Australian politician) William James Beckett CBE (10 June 1870 – 7 May 1965) was an Australian politician. Born in Prahran to Irish-born taxi proprietor Samuel Beckett and Scottish-born Margaret Cameron, he attended both state and private schools before becoming a second-hand furniture dealer at Fitzroy with his brother Henry. On 22 February 1893 he married Alice Maud Street, with whom he had two children. In 1914 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council as Labor member for Melbourne North; that year he was also elected to Fitzroy City Council, where he would"
"on March 29, 1929 of a heart attack in Knoxville, Tennessee after a fire while in route to the hospital. He was buried in the Old Gray Cemetery in Knoxville, Tennessee. Samuel Becket Boyd II Samuel Becket Boyd II (March 20, 1865 - March 29, 1929) was the fire chief of Knoxville, Tennessee who died in the line of duty. He was president of the International Association of Fire Chiefs in 1924. He was born on March 20, 1865 in Abingdon, Virginia to Samuel Becket Boyd I (1828-1890) and Isabella Reed (1831-1907). He had a sister, Isabella Kennedy Boyd (1860-1936)"
"His grandfather, Joe Smirthwinte Beckett was from Sheffield, England, and settled in Dearborn County, Indiana, in about 1837. His mother was the granddaughter of Thomas Rand, an immigrant from Belfast, Ireland, who fought in the Revolutionary War and settled in Dearborn County in about 1811. Beckett graduated from Emmerich Manual High School in Indianapolis in 1910 and graduated from the University of Illinois in 1914, where he studied architecture. He attended a predecessor of the now Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law and was admitted to the bar in 1916. Shortly thereafter, he partnered with his father and"
"that he would ""go out with it"" as well; he died the day after the comet returned. He was lauded as the ""greatest humorist this country has produced"", and William Faulkner called him ""the father of American literature"". Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens on November 30, 1835, in Florida, Missouri, the sixth of seven children born to Jane (""née"" Lampton; 1803–1890), a native of Kentucky, and John Marshall Clemens (1798–1847), a native of Virginia. His parents met when his father moved to Missouri, and they were married in 1823. Twain was of Cornish, English, and Scots-Irish descent. Only"
"the literary technique known as ""stream of consciousness"", best exemplified in his famous work ""Ulysses"". Joyce also wrote ""Finnegans Wake"", ""Dubliners"", and the semi-autobiographical ""A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"". ""Ulysses"", often considered to be the greatest novel of the 20th century, is the story of a day in the life of a city, Dublin. ""Finnegans Wake"" is written in an invented language which parodies English, Irish and Latin. Samuel Beckett (1906–1989), who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969, was born in Dublin but later moved to France. He wrote thereafter in French and English."
"Football Hall of Fame in 1983. Sharing the same name as ""The Bard of Avon"", Shakespeare earned nicknames including ""The Bard of Staten Island"", ""The Bard of South Bend"", and ""The Merchant of Menace."" Shakespeare was born on Staten Island, New York. His father, Valentine Shakespeare, was a New York City firefighter and the captain of Fire Company 163. The family claimed to be direct descendants of the famed writer William Shakespeare. The younger Shakespeare became a star football player at Staten Island's Port Richmond High School. He showed particular talent as a punter and later told reporters that he"