An account from Carole Seymour-Jones’s new biography of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, A Dangerous Liaison (Overlook, due September 10), about Algren and de Beauvoir’s first meeting in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

A tragic LGBTQ love story that the great feminist and philosopher Simone de Beauvoir presumed was "too intimate" to publish during her lifetime – has finally come out. Thirty-four years after her ...

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 ...

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 ...