James Wood (Afterword by)
Born in Durham in 1965, James Wood has been a staff writer at The
New Yorker since 2007. He was the chief literary critic at the
Guardian from 1992 to 1995, and a senior editor at The New Republic
from 1995 to 2007. His books include How Fiction Works, which has
been translated into fifteen 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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