In Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, Simone de Beauvoir remembers that as a child, she imagined her best friend, Élisabeth “Zaza” Lacoin, dying, and her schoolteacher announcing that Zaza had ...

Simone de Beauvoir, born in 1908 in Paris, was the older of two daughters of a strict Catholic couple, and as a child dreamed of becoming a nun. Instead, she lost her faith when she was 14 and by ...

Merve Emre reviews Simone de Beauvoir’s novel “Les Inséparables” (translated by Lauren Elkin as “The Inseparables” and by Sandra Smith as “Inseparable”), about her passion for a ...

Christopher Hampton Reveals Working With Anne Fontaine On Simone De Beauvoir-Nelson Algren Transatlantic Affair Drama. Skip to main ... “It’s really about the relationship between the child, ...

" I was simply not in his class," wrote Simone de Beauvoir in 1929, after an afternoon arguing in the park with her fellow student Jean-Paul Sartre. ... a form of "child abuse".

This is a new translation by Lauren Elkin of a shortish Simone de Beauvoir book, Les Belles Images, first published in 1966. The book’s aim is to identify the source of its heroine’s discontent.

Art & Exhibitions Hélène de Beauvoir, Sister to Simone, Gets Her Star Turn in a London Show. The second de Beauvoir sister used the power of her paintbrush to draw attention to the feminist cause.

Elsa Zylberstein (“Simone: Woman of the Century”) will star as the French feminist writer Simone de Beauvoir in a feature film that will be penned by Oscar-winning writer Christopher Hampton ...