Biographical

“The Self-Hatred of Simone Weil”

George Steiner

in No Passions Spent: Essays 1978-1995, New Haven: Yale University Press, pp.171-179

“Simone Weil’s Mind”

Robert Coles

in White, George, ed., Simone Weil: Interpretations of a Life, Amherst, MA: pp. 29-34

“Simone Weil: Last Things”

Michelle Murray

in White, George, ed., Simone Weil: Interpretations of a Life, Amherst, MA: pp. 47-62

“The Jagged Edge: A Biographical Essay on Simone Weil”

in White, George, ed., Simone Weil: Interpretations of a Life, Amherst, MA: pp. 13-28

“Simone Weil’s Work Experiences: From Wigan Peer to Chrystie Street”

George Abbott White

in White, George, ed., Simone Weil: Interpretations of a Life, Amherst, MA: pp. 137-180

A woman of transcendent intellect who assumed the sufferings of humanity

Elizabeth Hardwick read

New York Times Book Review, (review of Simone Pétrement’s biography of Weil)