A dumb ass and quiet, too - he's worth his weight in gold.

Philosopher and dramatist                          

Selected Works:

L'Imagination - Imagination: A Psychological Critique, 1936
La Transcendance de l'égo - The Transcendence of the Ego, 1937
La Nausée - Nausea, 1938
Le Mur - The Wall, 1939
Esquisse d'une théorie des émotions - Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions, 1939
L'Imaginaire - The Imaginary, 1940, lit. "The Unconscious"
Les Mouches - The Flies, 1943 - a modern version of the Oresteia
L'Être et le néant - Being and Nothingness, 1943
Réflexions sur la question juive - Anti-Semite and Jew; literally, Reflections on the Jewish Question, 1943
Huis-clos - No Exit, 1944
Les Chemins de la liberté - The Roads to Freedom trilogy, comprising:
   L'Âge de raison - The Age of Reason, 1945
   Le Sursis - The Reprieve, 1947
   La Mort dans l'Âme - Troubled Sleep, title formerly translated as Iron in the Soul, literally "Death in Spirit", 1949
Morts sans sépulture - Deaths without burial; aka The Victors; Men Without Shadows in English, 1946
L'Existentialisme est un humanisme - Existentialism is a Humanism, 1946
La Putaine respectueuse - The Respectful Whore 1946
Qu'est ce que la littérature? - What is literature?, 1947
Baudelaire, 1947
Situations, 1947 –1965
Les Mains sales - Dirty Hands, 1948
"Orphée Noir" - Black Orpheus, introduction to Anthologie de la nouvelle poésie nègre et malgache. edited by Léopold Sédar Senghor, 1948
Le Diable et le bon dieu - The Devil and the Good Lord, 1951
Les Jeux sont faits - The Game is Up, 1952
Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr, 1952
Nekrassov, 1955
Existentialism and Human Emotions, 1957
The Problem of Method, 1957
Les Séquestrés d'Altona - The Condemned of Altona, 1959
Critique de la raison dialectique - Critique of Dialectical Reason, 1960
"Preface" to Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth, 1961
Search for a Method - English translation of preface to Critique, Vol. I, 1962
Colonialism and Neocolonialism, 1964
Les Mots - The Words, 1964, autobiographical
L'Idiot de la famille - The Family Idiot, 1971–1972 - on Gustave Flaubert
Cahiers pour une morale - Notebooks for Ethics, 1983, 1947-48 notes on ethics
Les Carnets de la drôle de guerre: Novembre 1939 - Mars 1940 - War Diaries: Notebooks from a Phony War 1939-1940, 1984, notebooks from Sartre's time in the Phony War of 1939-1940.                          

Mother Anne-Marie Schweitzer
Father Jean-Baptiste Sartre                          

Jean-Paul’s mother was of Alsatian origin, and was a cousin of French Nobel prize laureate Albert Schweitzer.