simone de beauvoir

     

She & her tres cher ami Jean-Paul Sartre collaborated on the political & literary journal Modern Times

Trivia about simone de beauvoir

  • She based the characters of Anne & Robert in her novel "The Mandarins" on herself & Jean-Paul Sartre
  • At the Sorbonne she studied philosophy & met Sartre, beginning a lifelong association with both
  • She fictionalized her affair with Nelson Algren in "Les Mandarins", & based the heroine's husband on Sartre
  • In "The Second Sex", this French author declared, "One is not born a woman, one becomes one"
  • This existential pal of Jean-Paul Sartre wrote "The Second Sex"
  • Best known for her romance with Sartre, she also had a fling with Chicago novelist Nelson Algren
  • A teacher of philosophy until her first novel was published, her best-known work is "The Second Sex"
  • "One is not born a woman, one becomes one", this Frenchwoman wrote in "The Second Sex"
  • Betty Friedan said that as a feminist she owes much to this author of "The Second Sex", published in the U.S. in 1953
  • Sartre & this philosopher began their lifelong friendship while students at the Sorbonne
  • This "Second Sex" author taught philosophy for 12 years before writing her first novel
  • Over a decade before Friedan's "The Feminine Mystique", this woman wrote "The Second Sex"

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