Deirdre Bair, who as an unknown writer half a century ago scored a coup by getting the reclusive Samuel Beckett to agree to let her write his biography, then secured the same permission from another ...

Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir was a French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist and social theorist. Though she did not consider herself a ...

Deirdre Bair’s memoir of writing the biographies of Simone de Beauvoir and Samuel Beckett is a compelling story of an early feminist’s struggle to be taken seriously At 84, Deirdre Bair has authored ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In this new biography academic Kate Kirkpatrick uses recently translated materials to mount a spirited defence of Simone de Beauvoir’s ...

In this sensationalist account of the unconventional private and public lives of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, Seymour-Jones (Painted Shadow) offers Sartre's “incestuous” relationship with ...

They wrote side by side in Parisian cafes, working late into the night over glasses of whisky while honing each other’s ground-breaking philosophical theories. Intellectually in love and physically ...

Oscar-winning writer Christopher Hampton is in talks to write a screenplay with French director Anne Fontaine about iconic feminist writer Simone de Beauvoir and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Nelson ...

What do we think about when we think about existentialism? We may think about a philosophy centred on individual existence and free choice, but we also think about jazz, dark turtle-necks, Paris, ...

“The Visionaries,” by Wolfram Eilenberger, examines the divergent theories of self and other developed in a time of crisis by Hannah Arendt, Simone de Beauvoir, Ayn Rand and Simone Weil. By Jennifer ...

Lillian S. Robinson, feminist scholar and activist, died on September 20, 2006 in the Montréal General Hospital at the age of 65. The cause was ovarian cancer. Robinson, Principal (Director) of the ...