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 ...

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.

Hélène de Beauvoir: The Woman Destroyed at Amar Gallery in London, on view through March 30, seeks to reintroduce her as an artist in her own right — one whose paintings merged elements of ...

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.

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 ...

Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir were perhaps the most influential couple ... yet in 1965 Sartre adopted his 25-year-old Algerian mistress Arlette El Kaim as his child. For de Beauvoir, ...

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, ...