One of the most prominent writers of her generation, Beauvoir was a member of the French left-wing intellectual circle associated with existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre. She became identified as a leading feminist theorist with the publication of Le...

Beauvoir, Simone De(1908 In her Feminist Thought. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1989. Whitmarsh, Anne. Simone de Beauvoir and the Limits of Commitment. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press,...

(born Jan. 9, 1908, Paris, France—died April 14, 1986, Paris) French writer and feminist, a member of the intellectual fellowship of philosopher-writers who have given a literary transcription to the themes of Existentialism. She is known...

(born Jan. 9, 1908, Paris, France—died April 14, 1986, Paris) French writer and feminist. As a student at the Sorbonne, she met Jean-Paul Sartre, with whom she formed a lifelong intellectual and romantic bond. She is known primarily for her...

"La Beauvoir" redirects here; also see: Beauvoir (disambiguation). Simone de Beauvoir (pronounced [simÉ"ndÉ boËvwaÊ] in French) (January 9, 1908 – April 14, 1986) was a French author and philosopher. She wrote novels, monographs on philosophy,...