French philosopher, novelist, and essayist, the lifelong companion of Jean-Paul Sartre and vice versa. Beauvoir's two volume treatise Le deuxième sexe (1949, The Second Sex) is among the most widely read feminist works. (Source.)
Simone de Beauvoir
Author details
- Born:
- Jan. 9, 1908
- Died:
- April 14, 1986
