Camus, Albert ___ 1913-1960 ___ Algerian ___ writer

BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY
Camus was born in Mondovi, Algeria, into a working class family. When he was still very young, during the First World War, his father was killed, and his mother suffered a stroke on hearing the news. Camus won a scholarship and studied at the lycée in Algiers until 1932. Thereafter, he took various jobs, joined the Communist Party, studied at the University of Algiers, and married Simone Hié. He also contracted tuberculosis. A first collection of essays was published in 1937. The following year, he moved to France, divorced Hié who had become a morphine addict, and wrote for several newspapers. During the war he was a member of the French resistance. He also found time to marry Francine Faure, to teach at Oran, Algeria, and to publish his first novel, 'The Stranger'. With Sartre, he founded in 1943, and subsequently edited, the left-wing paper 'Combat'. After four years, he resigned from 'Combat' and, at roughly the same time, published 'The Plague'. Camus continued to write novels and journalism, but also became involved in the theatre as both playwright and producer. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1957. He kept notebooks from when he was a young man, and a journal during two journeys to the Americas - all of which have been published in English.
A biography link
Wikipedia bio
The Diary Review - Nostalgia for lost poverty

DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS
1946 1949 ___ literary travel self health US Brazil Argentina Chile

WEB TEXT LINKS
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a few pages

ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS

SOME PUBLISHED TITLES
American Journals
Notebooks 1935-1942
Notebooks 1943-1951
 

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