Samuel Barclay Beckett was born in 1906 in Dublin. He grew up in a Church of Ireland family in a large house. His father was a quantity surveyor and his mother a nurse
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969.
1906 - Born, Dublin
1919 - Attended Portora Royal School, Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh
1923 - Attended Trinity College, Dublin
1929 - Published the essay "Dante...Bruno. Vico..Joyce"
1932 - Published the novel "Dream of Fair to Middling Women"
1938 - Published the novel "Murphy"
1939 - Moved to Paris
1940 - Joined the French Resistance
1958 - Published the play "Krapp's Last Tape"
1961 - Married
1969 - Won the Nobel Prize for Literature
1989 - Died in Paris