Groult, Benoite

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GROULT, Benoite

GROULT, Benoite. French, b. 1920. Genres: Novels, Autobiography/Memoirs. Career: Worked as teacher of French and Latin, 1944-46, and as radio journalist, 1946-51; worked with Yvette Roudy, minister for women's rights, 1981-86; writer. Publications: (with F. Groult) Feminin pluriel (title means: Feminine Plural), 1965; Le Journal a 4 mains (novel; in English as: Double-Handed Diary), 1968; (with F. Groult) Il etait deux fois (novel), 1968; La part des choses, 1972; Les 3/4 du Temps (novel; title means: Most of the Time), 1975; Ainsi soit-elle, 1975, rev. ed., 2000; Le Feminisme au masculin, 1977; (with others) Des nouvelles de la famille, 1980; La moitie de la terre (essays), 1981; Les trois quarts du temps (novel), 1983; Les vaisseaux du coeur (novel), 1988, trans. as Salt on Our Skin, 1992; Pauline Roland, ou, Comment la liberte vint aux femmes (biography), 1991; (with J. Savigneau) Histoire d'une evasion (interviews), 1997. Address: 54 rue de Bourgogne, 75007 Paris, France.