Author

Books by Albert Camus

Albert Camus (1913–1960) was a French-Algerian author, journalist, and philosopher who became one of the most prominent voices of 20th-century humanism. Born in poverty in colonial Algeria, he studied philosophy, wrote for the resistance during the Nazi occupation, and edited the newspaper Combat. His novels The Stranger and The Plague, his plays, and his essays made him a central figure in postwar French intellectual life. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957, one of the youngest recipients in the prize's history. He died in a car accident at 46.