Our Albert Camus biography is in three parts: 1913-43 covering his birth to the publication of The Stranger and Myth of Sisyphus; 1943-51 covering his work for Combat to the publication of The Plague; 1951-60 covering the furore over The Rebel, the aftermath and The Fall ending with Camus’s untimely death.
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- Camus’s birth in Algiers
- Louis Germain mentorship and school scholarship
- Tuberculosis and move to Uncle Acault’s
- First articles published
- University of Algiers and Jean Grenier mentorship
- Marriage to Simone Hié
- Awarded teaching diploma, rejected on health grounds
- Split with Hié
- Joins then leaves Communist Party
- Publishes The Wrong Side and Right Side
- Co-founds Théâtre de l’Equipe theatre group
- Takes job as court reporter
- Writes powerful series on the poverty in Kabylia
- Reviews Sartre’s Nausea and Le Mur
- Outbreak of war, newspaper closed, Camus tries to enlist
- Moves to Paris
- Divorce comes through, marries Francine Faure
- Falls ill, The Stranger and The Myth of Sisyphus published
- Allied landing in North Africa cuts Camus off from Francine
- Works for Gallimard as manuscript reader
- Accepted into Parisian intellectual circle
- Meets Maria Casares
- Friendship with Sartre
- Friendship breaks down
- Works for the Resistance
- Writes Letters to a German Friend
- The Misunderstanding is performed
- Liberation of Paris
- Combat published openly, Camus becomes a household name
- Reunited with Francine
- All ties broken with Communists
- Visit to New York
- Publication of The Plague
- Just Assassins performed
- Visit to South America
- Depressed by the success of The Plague
- Publishes The Rebel
- Francis Jeanson savages The Rebel in Sartre’s Journal
- Camus and Sartre enter into public spat
- Publishes essay collection Summer
- Francine hospitalized, possibly attempts suicide
- Camus returns to journalism
- Publishes The Fall
- Algerian troubles, Camus proposes Civilian Truce
- Adapts Requiem for a Nun for the Stage
- Publishes Reflections on the Guillotine
- Publishes Exile and the Kingdom
- Wins Nobel Prize
- Adapts The Possessed for the stage
- Buys home in Lourmarin
- Less than a year to live
- Spends Christmas with family and friends in Cannes
- Killed in car accident on January 3rd, 1960
- Camus’s briefcase contains unfinished manuscript of The First Man