Albert Camus

Albert Camus (1913-1960) was a French-Algerian philosopher, author, and journalist best known for exploring themes of absurdism in works like The Stranger, The Plague, The Myth of Sisyphus, and The Fall. Born in poverty in French Algeria, he joined the French Resistance during World War II and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957 at age 44. He advocated against totalitarianism and for human dignity until his death in a car crash.