This versatile author's works include a 1962 biography of the  Marquis de Sade, as well as several works dealing with the issue  of aging, such as A Very Easy Death and La Ceremonie des Adieux,  which deals with the painful last years of the author's famous  consort. An affair with Nelson Algren is believed to be the  basis for the character of Lew
This versatile author's works include a 1962 biography of the  Marquis de Sade, as well as several works dealing with the issue  of aging, such as A Very Easy Death and La Ceremonie des Adieux,  which deals with the painful last years of the author's famous  consort. An affair with Nelson Algren is believed to be the  basis for the character of Lewis Brogan in The Mandarins. FTP,  name this French author of Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter and The  Second Sex, perhaps best known for her lifelong association with  Jean-Paul Sartre.
This versatile author's works include a 1962 biography of the  Marquis de Sade, as well as several works dealing with the issue  of aging, such as A Very Easy Death and La Ceremonie des Adieux,  which deals with the painful last years of the author's famous  consort.
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