Actor · Novel · Writer · Story
Born Jan 9, 1908 · Paris, France
Active 1978–1986 · Awards: Prix Goncourt, Jerusalem Prize, Austrian State Prize for European Literature, honorary doctorate of Concordia University, Benjamin E. Lippincott Award
Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir was a French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist and social theorist.