Albert Camus

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.

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 Albert Camus was born On November 7, 1913 in the poorest part of Mondovi, Algeria. Regrettably, his father went to war and became a casualty of World War I. Camus’ mother and grandmother raised him.
When Camus grew up, he developed a unique empathy for everyone who was suffering  and used his personal experience at a later time in his work and political activism. One of his teachers recognized that Camus had an exceptional intelligence and helped him to go to High School. Camus was very athletic, but in 1930, tuberculosis stopped him from becoming an athlete. Camus will suffer from the effects of tuberculosis for the rest of his life.
Camus graduated in 1936 from the University of Algiers with a Bachelor of Art in Philosophy.  During his years at the university, he met and married miss Simone Hié, who was addicted to heroin, left her in 1938 and  divorced her in 1940.
In 1937, he published his first book “L'Envers et l'Endroit” which was a collection of Essays and Short stories. Camus moved to Paris in 1939 and married Francine Faure, in 1940.  He worked for the publisher Gallimard.
Camus became a part of the French Resistance and founded with Sartre a resistance newspaper called Combat . He publish in 1942 “Le Mythe de Sisyphe or Myth of Sisyphus” and “L’Etranger” or “The Stranger.  He moved back to Algeria in 1944, and in 1945  his wife gave birth to twins.
He published “La Peste” in 1947, “L'Homme Revolte” (1951) and “ La chute or the fall in 1956”. Camus received the Nobel Prize in 1957.
Camus died in a car accident in 1960