members. He fled to unoccupied France, where he supported himself as an agricultural worker. In 1945 he returned to Ireland, where he volunteered for the Red Cross and was then sent back to France as an interpreter in a military hospital in Saint-Lô, Normandy. Later that year he returned to Paris and took up permanent residence. The Becketts also had a small house in the Marne Valley, sixty miles from Paris. There he did most of his writing in privacy and seclusion. Devoted to his writing, Beckett