Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) was a hugely influential French philosopher, novelist, playwright, and pamphleteer. In 1964 he declined the Nobel Prize for Literature. Among his most well-known works available in English are 
Nausea, 
Being and Nothingness, 
No Exit, 
Critique of Dialectical Reason, and 
The Words. 
 Ronald Aronson
 is the author of 
The Dialectics of Disaster, After Marxism, Camus and Sartre and 
Living Without God. He teaches at Wayne State University. 
 Adrian van den Hoven is Professor Emeritus at the University of Windsor and founding Executive Editor of 
Sartre Studies International. He has translated Sartre, Camus, and other French writers, and is the author of several books about Sartre. He was twice elected President of the North American Sartre Society.