The Image of Her

Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) was a philosopher, novelist, feminist, public intellectual, activist, and one of the major figures in existentialism in postwar France. Her works include The Second Sex, She Came to Stay, and The Coming of Age. Lauren Elkin, an award-winning French and American writer and translator, is the author of Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art and Scaffolding. Her numerous translations from the French include Beauvoir's The Inseparables and works by Claude Arnaud, Michelle Perrot, and Lola Lafon.