I only had one life to live, I wanted it to be a success... Simone de Beauvoir. Ingeborg Gleichauf reinterprets Simone de Beauvoir for young readers of the 21st century. She introduces the life and work of this significant thinker, from her childhood and youth through her years of study, her work as a philosophy teacher, and the beginning of her lifelong relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre, the time of World War II, to the peak of her career as a philosopher and writer, and finally to the loss of Sartre and Beauvoir's own death.