Right? She died last year, and virtually no one noticed. She brought Sartre, Camus, and French food to the English-speaking world. She brought many influential writers to print, and was an author in her own right. Her impact will be felt for centuries, even if she herself is not.

And just for a fun extra bit, this is the place and era that editor/publisher Judith Jones cut her teeth. Best known for Julia Child's cookbook, she should be better known as "the woman who saved the Diary of Anne Frank from the rejection pile." She was a huge deal in the publishing industry.

It was a really important year in literature in Paris. You have Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir basically running a writers' revolution on the left bank. An entire new literary movement was formed known as the Nouveau Roman, "the new novel", the "anti-novel", or "anti-romanticism."

Basic answer, like many controversial authors, he moved to Paris in 1946.