Jean Paul Sartre

Jean Paul Sartre was born in Paris, in 1905. He studied at the Ecole Normale Superieure from 1924-1929. In 1931 he became Professor of Philosophy at Le Havre. In 1932, he traveled to Berlin to study the philosophies of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger.

Sartre was an atheist. He did not believe that there was a higher power than us, helping him create the idea of existentialism.

Not only is Sartre known as a philosopher, he is also known as an author, writing books such as "Qu'est-ce que la littérature?" (What Is Literature?), 1948, L'Imagination (1936), Esquisse d'une théorie des émotions (Outline of a Theory of the Emotions), 1939. He has also written plays, best known for Les Mouches (The Flies), 1943.

Jean Paul Sartre was the winner of The Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964.