Beauvoir wove people from her own life into her fiction barely disguised

Evidence

Lisa is eager to frequent the Bibliothèque nationale, where her friend Marguerite is preparing for exams and is seated next to “Wanda, a young Polish girl with green eyes” (W, 99; A, 173), an oblique reference to Wanda Kosakievicz, the student Beauvoir befriended. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 557

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Beauvoir’s first novel fictionalized a real escalating love pentagon — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 356