Connections 6

To mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Sam Beckett (yesterday), this week's connections begin with him.
1. Beckett won the Nobel prize for literature and played sport at a high level, as did Albert Camus...
2...who had to abandon a career (football) because of his tuberculosis, as did the father of country music Jimmie Rodgers...
3...who performed with the Carter Family, whose guitarist Maybelle was the mother-in-law of Johnny Cash...
4...who was known as the Man in Black, as was Valentine Dyall...
5....who appeared in both Blake's 7 and Doctor Who, as did Brian Blessed...
6...who is a keen mountain-climber, as was Friedrich Hayek....
7...who was a cousin of Paul Wittgenstein (brother of Ludwig), who was a professional pianist despite losing an arm in the Great War...
8...among his performances was Diversions for piano (left hand), which was written especially for him by Benjamin Britten...
9...who made his first appearance in England in Lowestoft, as did Joseph Conrad...
10...who wrote great literature in his second language, as did Sam Beckett.

Comments

[jamie]

I don't want to nitpick, but wasn't English Conrad's third language, after Polish and French?

[siaw]

Even more nitpicky: why do you call Samuel Beckett "Sam"? Was he a friend of yours? And why not then refer to Bert (or maybe Albie) Camus, Fred Hayek and Joe Conrad? It's no big deal, but it's a bit puzzling.