This Week in Book History

November 7 marks the birthday of everybody's favorite brooding existentialist, Albert Camus. Born into extreme poverty in Mondovi, Algeria in 1913, Camus won a scholarship to high school and from there went on to study philosophy at the Unversity of Algiers. By far in a way his most famous novel was THE STRANGER, which was published in 1942. In 1957 Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature. Three years later he was killed in a car accident.

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