Durham, Carolyn A. "Patterns of Influence: Simone de Beauvoir and Marie Cardinal." The French Review 60, No. 3 (February 1987): 341-48.

Examines the influence of Beauvoir's collection La femme rompue on Marie Cardinal's Une vie pour deux.

Fallaize, Elizabeth. "Resisting romance: Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed and the Romance Script." Contemporary French Fiction by Women: Feminist Perspectives, edited by Margaret Atack and Phil Powrie, pp. 15-25. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1990.

Identifies problems with the romance plot of Beauvoir's novella The Woman Destroyed.

Keefe, Terry. "Commitment, re-commitment and puzzlement: Aspects of the Cold War in the Fiction of Simone de Beauvoir." French Cultural Studies VIII (February 1997): 127-36.

Discusses the political content of Beauvoir's posthumously published story "Malentendu à Moscou," which is set in the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

Moi, Toril. "Intentions and Effects: Rhetoric and Identification in Simone de Beauvoir's 'The Woman Destroyed'." In Feminist Theory & Simone de Beauvoir, pp. 61-93. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990.

Accounts for the discrepancy between popular readings of Beauvoir's novella The Woman Destroyed and the authorial reading.

Additional coverage of Beauvoir's life and career is contained in the following sources published by Gale Group: Contemporary Authors, Vols. 9-12, 118; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vols. 28, 61; Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vols. 1, 2, 4, 8, 14, 31, 44, 50, 71; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 72; Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook, Vol. 86; DISCovering Authors; Discovering Authors: British; DISCovering Authors: Canadian; DISCovering Authors: Most-Studied Authors Module; Discovering Authors: Novelists Module; Major 20th-century Writers, Vol. 1; and World Literature Criticism.