Simone de Beauvoir
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Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir was a French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist. Though she did not consider herself a philosopher, nor was sh
Beauvoir in 1967
Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir at the Balzac Memorial
Algren in 1956
Antonio Núñez Jiménez, Beauvoir, Sartre and Che Guevara in Cuba, 1960.
Nelson Algren
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Nelson Algren was an American writer. His 1949 novel The Man with the Golden Arm won the National Book Award and was adapted as the 1955 film of the same name.
Simone de Beauvoir
…Africa to lecture and then in 1947 made a long trip to the United States where she met Sartre’s lover Dolors Vanetti. While in America she met author Nelson Algren. Beauvoir met Algren in Chicago in 1947, while she was on a four-month "exploration" trip of the United States using various means of transport…
Dunes cottage where Algren and de Beauvoir summered in Miller Beach, Indiana.
The Nelson Algren Memorial fountain in Chicago