Albert
Camus, son of a working-class family, was born
in Algeria in 1913. He spent the early years of his life in North Africa,
where he worked a various jobs (in the weather bureau, in an
automobile-accessory firm, in a shipping company) to help pay for his courses at
the University of Algiers. He then turned to journalism as a career. His
report on the unhappy state of the Muslims of the Kabylie region aroused the
Algerian government to action and brought him public notice. From 1935 to 1938
he ran the Theatre de l'Equipe, a
theatrical company that produced plays by Malraux, Gide, Synge, Dostoevski, and
others. During World War II he was one of
the leading writers of the French Resistance and editor of Combat, then an important
underground newspaper. Camus was always very active in the theater, and
several of his plays have been published and produced. His fiction, including
The Stranger, The Plague, The Fall, and Exile and the Kingdom; his
philosophical essays, The Myth of Sisyphus and the Rebel; and his plays have assured his preeminent position in modern French
letters. In 1957 Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. His sudden
death on January 4, 1960, cut short the career of one of the most important
literary figures of the Western world when he was at the very summit of his
powers.
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Albert Camus (1913-1960)
