Albert Camus: An Algerian Frenchman Famous authors create novels deriving from economical situations that cause people distress. Albert Camus was born November 7th, 1913, in Mondovi, Algeria he lived his whole childhood in deficiency, his father who was of French descent and was killed in 1914 (“Albert Camus” 256). Living only with his mother, Camus later attended the University of Algiers with help of many scholarships offering him money (“Albert Camus” 256). At university he was exceptional in philosophy, but he majored in sports and drama (“Albert Camus” 256). In Camus’s teens he was diagnosed with tuberculosis, he began questioning life after he found out about his sickness (“Albert Camus” 256). Now as an adult during World War II, Camus had already written three wildly popular novels about the meaning of life and how life could be meaningless (“Albert Camus” 256).
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As German occupation was getting worse in France Camus joined the French resistance movement in 1942, this movement worked against the Nazis by writing underground newspapers and books exposing Hitler’s regime (“Camus, Albert” 290). While the Nazis were in combat, Camus wrote novels in concealment by hiding his identity by living in France (“Camus, Albert” 290). He unfortunately was caught by the Nazi Gestapo, but was able to escape in 1951. On January 4th, 1960, Camus got in a major car crash at age 46 and passed away (“Camus, Albert”
As German occupation was getting worse in France Camus joined the French resistance movement in 1942, this movement worked against the Nazis by writing underground newspapers and books exposing Hitler’s regime (“Camus, Albert” 290). While the Nazis were in combat, Camus wrote novels in concealment by hiding his identity by living in France (“Camus, Albert” 290). He unfortunately was caught by the Nazi Gestapo, but was able to escape in 1951. On January 4th, 1960, Camus got in a major car crash at age 46 and passed away (“Camus, Albert”