“The Stranger,” Albert Camus’ classic novel, which is about to celebrate its 75th anniversary in print, almost wasn’t published. Alice Kaplan, the John M. Musser Professor of French, recounts this ...

Albert Camus was a French Algerian philosopher, author, and journalist. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44 in 1957, the second-youngest recipient in history. Camus was born in ...

University of Houston historian Zaretsky offers an invigorating blend of history, criticism, and biography in a stirring reassessment of the Nobel Prize–winning existentialist writer Albert Camus.

Albert Camus grappled with virtually every crisis of the 20th century intellectual. He was an anti-colonial activist in his native Algeria during the 1930s and a member of the Resistance in occupied ...

American teenager Elizabeth Hawes fell in love with Albert Camus in the late 1950s. Camus's novels inspired her with a "feeling of connection, compassion, and love for all of mankind" and she ...

The passionate letters between Albert Camus, France’s Nobel prize-winning author of The Stranger, and the Spanish actress Maria Casares were published on Friday, casting light for the first time on ...

A highly acclaimed biography of the French novelist and philosopher. (May) ...