On this day in 1989, Irish playwright Samuel Beckett died. Following his wife Suzanne's death in July of that same year, Beckett was confined to a nursing home suffering from emphysema and Parkinson's. He died at the age of 83. Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. His wife viewed the award as a "catastrophe," fearing the fame and attention it would … [Read more...] about December 22, 1989