Hazel E. Barnes 1915-2008: a Farewell to America's Foremost Sartre Scholar (In Memoriam‪)‬

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This is the second essay for the Journal of the Society for Existential Analysis on my friend and mentor, Hazel E. Barnes. The first, written in 2000, started out as a short review of her autobiography, The Story I Tell Myself (1997). It ended as a thirty-page article about her autobiography as an existential-analytic example of the good life. It is hard to write about Hazel Barnes without getting lengthy. This is so not only because of her marvelous contribution of bringing existentialism to the English speaking world with her translation of Sartre's Being and Nothingness and her many books and articles on humanistic existentialism. It is also true because of her deep personal influence on her students, friends and colleagues.