"Integrity has no need of rules."

Albert Camus (1913-1960) Albert Camus, the French writer,son of a working-class family, was born in Algeria. He spent the early years of his life in North Africa, where he worked at various jobs to help pay for his courses at the University. Active in the French resistance during World War 2, he became co-editor with Sartre of the left-wing newspaper Combat after the liberation until 1948. He earned an international reputation with his nihilistic novel, L'Étranger (1942, The Outsider). He also wrote plays and several political works. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. His sudden death cut short the career of one of the most important literary figures of the Western world when he was at the very summit of his powers.