In 1947, Simone de Beauvoir met Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Nelson Algren in Chicago, and it was Love at first sight.
Unique among the prolific correspondence de Beauvoir conducted th.
A Transatlantic Love Affair collects more than three hundred Love letters written in English by de Beauvoir to Algren.
A passionate Affair ensued, spanning twenty years and four continents in an era when a Transatlantic flight took twenty-four hours and overseas telephone calls were a luxury.
In 1947, Simone de Beauvoir met Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Nelson Algren in Chicago, and it was Love at first sight