The Works
A Walk on the Wild Side
S4 • E7 Nov 22, 1997
Simone de Beauvoir , author of The Second Sex, is renowned as a feminist icon and remembered for her enduring relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre. However, at the age of 40, shortly before writing The Second Sex, she fell in love with American writer Nelson Algren, who was to become one of America's toughest realist writers.