Everyone Is Crying Out to Me is a vehicle for Simone's own rediscovery of the culture she left behind, as well as a way for her to share that culture with Americans who have no understanding or knowledge of it.

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Jean-Paul Sartre, who was a philospher, dramatist and critic as well as a novelist, was too interested in himself to immortalise Simone de Beauvoir.

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