Beauvoir introduced Sartre to American writers Dos Passos, Faulkner, and Hemingway.

Evidence

Importantly, Deirdre Bair notes in her biography: “In the early Th irties Beauvoir frequented the bookshops of Sylvia Beach and Adrien Monnier and read … Dos Passos, whom she admired greatly.” She read him in English, unlike Sartre, who, at her instigation, read him and other American writers, such as Faulkner and Hemingway, in translation. Her enthusiasm for Dos Passos must have been contagious because in 1939 Sartre published “Dos Passos and ‘1919,’” in which he focuses on the latter’s use of free indirect discourse and famously concludes: “I consider Dos Passos to be the greatest novelist of his time.” — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 547

Categorization

• XREF: Evidence of Beauvoir-to-Sartre influence direction, core to the authorship/influence debate.
• SEED: An essay angle: tracing Beauvoir’s under-credited role as literary tastemaker who introduced Sartre to American modernism.