The earth had need of me
Joanna Biggs: A nice girl like Simone, 16 April 2020
Becoming Beauvoir: A Life
by Kate Kirkpatrick.
Bloomsbury, 476 pp., £20, August 2019,978 1 350 04717 4 Show More
by Kate Kirkpatrick.
Bloomsbury, 476 pp., £20, August 2019,
Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir and Me, a Memoir
by Deirdre Bair.
Atlantic, 347 pp., £18.99, February 2020,978 1 78649 265 4 Show More
by Deirdre Bair.
Atlantic, 347 pp., £18.99, February 2020,
Diary of a Philosophy Student, Vol. II: 1928-29
by Simone de Beauvoir, translated by Barbara Klaw.
Illinois, 374 pp., £40, June 2019,978 0 252 04254 6 Show More
by Simone de Beauvoir, translated by Barbara Klaw.
Illinois, 374 pp., £40, June 2019,
“... existentialist you ever saw’ and she lunched her way around Manhattan, becoming close to Richard Wright and his wife, Ellen (left-wing Americans who criticised their country in a way that made you love it more), before taking off for Vassar, then Chicago, California, Texas, New Orleans and New Mexico.She’d been told to look up Nelson Algren when she got to ... ”
