Jean-Paul Sartre a French Philosopher, Playwright, Novelist, Screenwriter, Political Activist, Biographer, and Literary in Bloomington, MN

Jean-Paul Sartre was a renowned French playwright, philosopher, as well as political activist, who also influenced disciplines such as sociology and literary studies. Being an important figure both in the philosophies of existentialism and phenomenology, he is regarded as an important figure of 20th century French philosophy. Though he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1964, Sartre declined it, saying that according to him, a writer should never become an institution.