The Captive Mind

Czesław Miłosz (1911-2004) was a Polish-American poet, essayist, and Nobel laureate in Literature (1980), born in what is now Lithuania but identified strongly with Polish culture and language. Renowned for his poetry exploring morality, history, and faith amid wartime and totalitarian experiences, his prose work The Captive Mind brought international fame by analyzing intellectual complicity under communism.Poetry Foundation. He defected from communist Poland, taught at UC Berkeley, and became a leading émigré voice.Nobel biographical.