About the Author

Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) is the author of many books, among them The Second Sex (1949) and The Mandarins (1954), which won the Prix Goncourt. Carol Cosman is a freelance translator who has also translated Jean-Paul Sartre's The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857. Douglas Brinkley is a Professor of History at the University of New Orleans and the author of a forthcoming biography of Jimmy Carter.

Reviews

"Whether she is dancing at the Savoy or in search of jazz in New Orleans, Beauvoir's observations always seem fresh and sometimes even profound."--"Santa Fe New Mexican