At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails

Name: At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
ISBN: 9781590518892

by Sarah Bakewell

Kirkus Prize · 2016 · Shortlist

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Other PressMarch 1, 2016Biography & Memoir NonfictionISBN 9781590518892

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction	2016	Shortlist

About This Book

Sarah Bakewell's lively group biography brings Sartre, Beauvoir, Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger, and other existentialists to life, tracing the origins of existentialism and its continuing relevance to how we live. Shortlisted for the Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction.

About the Author

Sarah BakewellBritish

Sarah Bakewell (born 1963) is a British author and former rare books curator, best known for her acclaimed nonfiction works blending biography, philosophy, and cultural history, including the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning How to Live: A Life of Montaigne (2010), At the Existentialist Café (2016), and Humanly Possible (2023). Born in Bournemouth, England, she spent part of her childhood traveling through Asia and living in Australia before studying philosophy at the University of Essex and working at London's Wellcome Library, which inspired her debut book The Smart (2001). She has received the Windham-Campbell Prize for Nonfiction (2018) and teaches creative writing at Oxford.