Author

Books by Arthur Koestler

Arthur Koestler was a Hungarian-British author and intellectual whose work spanned fiction, history of science, political commentary, and psychology. Born in Budapest in 1905, he is perhaps best known for his novel Darkness at Noon (1940), a devastating portrait of Stalinist show trials drawn from his own experience as a former Communist. He later turned to the history of science and creativity, producing The Sleepwalkers (1959) and The Act of Creation (1964). Koestler was a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and received numerous honors. He died in 1983.