JOHN PILLING is well-known for his many books and essays on Beckett, "Samuel Beckett" (1976), "Frescoes of the Skull," with James Knowlson (1979), "Beckett Before Godot" (1997), "A Companion to 'Dream of Fair to Middling Women'" (2004), among others. He is also a past editor of the "Journal of Beckett Studies" and Director of The Beckett International Foundation (1993-2004).