Writer de Beauvoir (6)
I believe the answer is:
simone
<span class="explanation-format__ClueExplanation">'<span class="explanation-format__original">writer de beauvoir</span>' is the definition.<br/ ><span class="explanation-format__explanation">(I've seen this in another clue)</span><br/ ><br/ >This is all the clue.<br/ ></span>
(Other definitions for simone that I've seen before include "French woman" , "-- de Beauvoir, French feminist writer" , "girl" .)