She gave up the teaching 
She gave up the teaching of philosophy after the 1943 publication of her first novel, She Came to Stay. Her autobiographical volumes include Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter and A Very Easy Death. She wrote about many of her relationships, for example, Nelson Algren in Les Mandarins. For 10 points—name this author of the feminist work The Second Sex and close companion of Jean-Paul Sartre.
She gave up the teaching of philosophy after the 1943 publication of her first novel, She Came to Stay.