About the Author

Albert Camus was born in Mondovi, Algeria, in 1913. In occupied France in 1942 he published The Myth of Sisyphus and The Stranger, a philosophical essay and a novel which first brought him to the attention of intellectual circles. Among his other major writings are the essay The Rebel, three widely praised works of fiction, The Plague, The Fall, and Exile and the Kingdom, and his plays.