Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir (1908-86), French novelist, writer, and existentialist thinker. In 1929 she began a lifelong association with Jean-Paul Sartre at the Sorbonne, where she later taught philosophy. Her works include the feminist landmark The Second Sex (1949), The Mandarins (1956), a novel set in the French intellectual circles of the 1940’s; she also wrote an autobiography in several volumes, beginning with Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter (1958) and ending with Adieux. A Farewell to Sartre (1981).
