Albert
Camus was born
in Algeria in 1913 and
died in France in a car
crash in 1960. He was a philoso-
pher and writer whose best-known
works include the novels The Stran-
ger, The Plague, and The Fall, and
the philosophical studies The Myth of
Sisyphus and The Rebel. He worked with
the French Resistance during WW II, and
he won the Nobel Prize for literature
in 1957. Sometimes associated with his
colleague Jean-Paul Sartre and therefore
with existentialism--though perhaps
better described as a modern humanist
--Camus dealt with issues such as
the conscience of modern man in
the face of evil; alienation;
and the separation of the
individual from
himself.