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Simone de Beauvoir

DATES: January 9, 1908 - 1986

ABOUT HER
Writer, intellectual, feminist, rebel, Simone de Beauvoir was always an independent thinker. At a young age seeing the misery of her mother's life, she vowed never to be a housewife.

She partnered herself with Jean-Paul Sartre for 51 years although she did not marry him, nor would she live with him. With him she co-defined the concept of existentialism.

In her writing life, Simone de Beauvoir wrote both fiction and nonfiction. The Second Sex, her fifth book, became a battle cry for all feminists. In it she wrote frankly about her experiences growing up female in a male-dominated world.

Simone de Beauvoir never accepted for the role society had created for her gender.

QUOTES
"One is not born a woman, one becomes one."

AWARDS/HONORS

  • Goncourt Prize for fiction
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir
The Mandarins, Simone de Beauvoir
The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, Simone de Beauvoir
The Prime of Life, Simone de Beauvoir
The Force of Circumstance, Simone de Beauvoir
A Very Easy Death, Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir: A Feminist Mandarin, Mary Evans
It Changed My Life, Betty Friedan
Simone de Beauvoir, Judith Okely
After 'The Second Sex ': Conversations with Simone de Beauvoir, Alice Schwarzer
LINKS TO LEARN SO MUCH MORE
http://www.thomson.com/gale/beauvoi.html
http://www.tcp.chem.tue.nl/~tgtcmv/simone/beauvoir.html


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