Albert Camus

Albert Camus was born in French Algeria. Camus joined the French Communist Party in 1935 and also began working with the anarchist movement and writing for socialist newspapers. In 1941, Camus wrote his first and most influential book, The Stranger. He went on to write several more novels, as well as many plays, short stories, essays, and nonfiction philosophical works. Camus’s most notable contribution to the field of philosophy was the idea of the absurd. In 1957, Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Camus’s life was cut short in 1960 at the age of 46 when he died in a car accident in France.