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A Short Biography of Simone de Beauvoir

Author Name:

Simone de Beauvoir

Born As:

Simone Lucie-Ernestine-Marie-Bertrand de Beauvoir

Other Names:

Simone de Beauvoir

Born:

9 Jan 1908

Died:

14 Apr 1986




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Author and Philosopher                          
Selected Works:

She Came to Stay - 1943
Pyrrhus et Cinéas - 1944
The Blood of Others - 1945
Who Shall Die? - 1945
All Men are Mortal - 1946
The Ethics of Ambiguity - 1947
The Second Sex - 1949
America Day by Day - 1954
The Mandarins - 1954
Must We Burn Sade? - 1955
The Long March - 1957
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter - 1958
The Prime of Life - 1960
Force of Circumstance - 1963
A Very Easy Death - 1964
Les Belles Images - 1966
The Woman Destroyed - 1967
The Coming of Age - 1970
All Said and Done - 1972
When Things of the Spirit Come First - 1979
Adieux: A Farewell to Sartre - 1981
Letters to Sartre - 1990
A Transatlantic Love Affair: Letters to Nelson Algren - 1998

Translations:

Patrick O'Brian was Beauvoir's principal English translator until he attained commercial success as a novelist.

Philosophical Writings - Urbana : University of Illinois Press 2004 edited by Margaret A. Simons et al. contains a selection of essays by Beauvoir translated for the first time into English.

Among those are: Pyrrhus and Cineas discussing the futility or utility of action two previously unpublished chapters from her novel She Came to Stay and an introduction to Ethics of Ambiguity.                          
Mother Françoise Brasseur
Father Georges de Beauvoir, two daughters  Hélène and Simone.