Editing Simone de Beauvoir (section)

===''The Mandarins''===
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[[File:Algren house Miller.jpg|thumb|Dunes cottage where Algren and Beauvoir summered in [[Miller Beach]], Indiana]]

Published in 1954, ''The Mandarins'' won France's highest literary prize, the ''[[Prix Goncourt]]''.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Constant |first1=Paule |title=Simone de Beauvoir, l'engagée |url=https://www.lexpress.fr/culture/livre/les-mandarins_818917.html |website=L'Express |access-date=10 November 2021 |language=French |date=10 July 2003}}</ref> It is a [[roman à clef]] set after the end of World War II and follows the personal lives of philosophers and friends among Sartre's and Beauvoir's intimate circle, including her relationship with American writer [[Nelson Algren]], to whom the book is dedicated.<ref name="lrb_rogin">{{cite journal |last1=Rogin |first1=Michael |title=More than ever, and for ever |url=https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v20/n18/michael-rogin/more-than-ever-and-for-ever |journal=London Review of Books |access-date=10 November 2021 |date=17 September 1998|volume=20 |issue=18 }}</ref>

Algren was outraged by the frank way Beauvoir described their sexual experiences in both ''The Mandarins'' and her autobiographies.<ref name="lrb_rogin" /> Algren vented his outrage when reviewing American translations of Beauvoir's work. Much material bearing on this episode in Beauvoir's life, including her love letters to Algren, entered the public domain only after her death.<ref>{{cite web |title=A Transatlantic Love Affair: Letters to Nelson Algren |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/simone-de-beauvoir/a-transatlantic-love-affair/ |website=Kirkus Reviews |access-date=10 November 2021 |date=1 September 1998}}</ref>