Simone de Beauvoir

“The Feminist Time Forgot” Susan Faludi, New Yorker. Shulamith Firestone rejected her Orthodox upbringing and authoritarian father  to become one of the leaders of late 1960s radical feminism.  But her father's death reduced her to insanity.

Lanzmann's Ladies Benjamin Balint, Weekly Standard. The memoir of filmmaker Claude Lanzmann, known for his achievement in Shoah, focuses on other "achievements": "I am the only man with whom Simone de Beauvoir lived a quasi-marital existence." 

Cherchez l'homme Margot Lurie, Tablet. Simone de Beauvoir's affair with the American Jewish novelist Nelson Algren gave her everything she never got from Sartre.