ALBERT CAMUS

1913-1960
 Albert Camus was born on November 7, 1913 in
Mondavi(modernday Drean), Algeria to a working
class family
 • His mother was half-deaf and illiterate cleaning
women, while his is father was a poor agricultural
worker.
CAMOUS LIFE
 • His father was draft into the French army and was
KIA at the Battle of the Marne, September 1914
 • While in Belcourt elementary school, Camus’s
intellectual talents was recognized by one of his
instructors. Louis Germain would be thanked later at
Camus’s Nobel Prize speech.
 • Camus would attend the University of Algiers’
school of philosophy full-time until in 1930
tuberculosis took his strength.