Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett (1906–1989) was an Irish writer, playwright, and poet, widely regarded as one of the most important literary figures of the twentieth century. He lived and worked in Paris and was associated with the postwar intellectual and literary milieu. Beckett was one of Joan Mitchell’s favorite writers and was briefly her lover. Mitchell described his work in painterly terms: “He doesn’t describe anything. It’s like a good painting. He doesn’t illustrate anything. If something is green you know it’s green, but he doesn’t say it’s green.”