Jan. 9: Simone de Beauvoir, French writer and philosopher

BORN JANUARY 9:

Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) French novelist, philosopher, and pioneering feminist (though she would have rejected the label); She Came to Stay; The Second Sex; Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter.

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