Beckett Letters at Emory Receives Grant

The Letters of Samuel Beckett project, based at ’s Laney Graduate School, has received a National Endowment for the Humanities' (NEH) grant to help complete the last volumes of the project, as well as prepare a one-volume edition for the general public.

The grant, which totals $280,000 over 36 months, with an additional $30,000 to match gifts to the edition, is one of 249 humanities projects across the nation to be funded by the NEH.

Along with support from Laney Graduate School, Emory College of Arts and Sciences and Emory University, NEH grants have underwritten the basic research on the letters of Beckett, the Irish writer widely known in this country for his play “Waiting for Godot.”

The second volume of the project “The Letters of Samuel Beckett, 1941-1956,” will be published in Europe in September and in the United States in October.