James Wood (Afterword by)
James Wood has been a staff writer at the New Yorker since 2007. In
2009, he won the National Magazine Award for reviews and criticism.
He was the chief literary critic at the Guardian from 1992 to 1995,
and a book critic at the New Republic from 1995 to 2007. He has
published a number of books with Cape, including How Fiction Works,
which has been translated into thirteen languages.
Albert Camus (Author)
Albert Camus (1913-60) grew up in a working-class neighbourhood in
Algiers. He studied philosophy at the University of Algiers, and
became a journalist. His most important works include The Outsider,
The Myth of Sisyphus, The Plague and The Fall. After the occupation
of France by the Germans in 1941, Camus became one of the
intellectual leaders of the Resistance movement. He was killed in a
road accident, and his last unfinished novel, The First Man,
appeared posthumously.
Justin O'Brien (Translator)
Justin O'Brien was the Blanche W. Knopf Professor of French
Literature at Columbia University and renowed translator of Anre
Gide and Albert Camus, both of whom were his intimate friends.
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