This manuscript is the only original object in the exhibit. "From the Desk of Simone de Beauvoir" is a cozy assemblage of objects that could have been in her Paris apartment — desk, lamp, bookcases.

De Beauvoir would probe the meaning of self-determination and freedom in “The Ethics of Ambiguity”, a defence of existentialism published in 1947. “Man exists,” she wrote.

“The Inseparables,” a novel Beauvoir abandoned in 1954, tells the story of a doomed friendship based on one from her own childhood. The French existentialist writer and feminist Simone de ...

Simone de Beauvoir is not interested in narrow, dogmatic interpretations of female development, but in a more expansive, fruitful vision of how one becomes a woman (or, in this rigorous new ...

Simone de Beauvoir’s father, like the French superpatriots of his day, was an anti-Dreyfusard who liked to quote Daudet and Maurras and to say that nationalism was his only religion.

Part of the wave of media coverage commemorating the 100th anniversary of de Beauvoir’s birth, the accompanying article, titled “Simone de Beauvoir: A Scandalous Woman,” concerns itself ...

Simone de Beauvoir was a force with which to be reckoned and The Second Sex is arguably the best writing ever achieved on gender equality. It will not provide today’s military and political leaders ...

Oscar-winning writer Christopher Hampton is in talks to write a screenplay with French director Anne Fontaine about iconic feminist writer Simone de Beauvoir and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer ...