Benny Levy Author

Jean-Paul Sartre (1906 - 80) was offered, but declined, the Nobel Prize for literature in 1964. His many works of fiction, drama, and philosophy include the monumental study of Flaubert, The Family Idiot, published in translation by the University of Chicago Press. Benny Levy (1945 - 2003) was a leader in the 1968 student uprising in France and served as Sartre's assistant from 1974 to 1980. Adrian van den Hoven is president of the North American Sartre Society.