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Albert Camus Is born in Mondovi in French Algeria to a Spanish mother and an Alsatian father. His family is a poor agricultural worker of Alsatian poor and his mother has a hearing problem.
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Albert's father Lucien is fatally wounded in the battle of Marne in WW1, and dies in October, leaving albert and his mother to fend for themselves. Albert grows up poor in Belcourt, Algiers.
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Camus became political during his student years, joining first the Communist Party and then the Algerian People's Party. As a champion of individual rights, he opposed French colonization and argued for the empowerment of Algerians in politics and labor. Camus would later be associated with the French anarchist movement. ("Albert Camus." Biography.com. A&E Networks Television, 02 Apr. 2014. Web. 19 May 2017.)
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Albert contracts tuberculosis and has to give up on his football career.
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Camus Marries his first wife Simone Hié, but the marriage ended as a consequence of infidelities on both sides
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By 1936 he has an undergraduate and graduate degree in philosophy.
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At the beginning of World War II, Camus joined the French Resistance in order to help free Paris from Nazi rule.In 1945, he was one of the few Allied journalists to condemn the American use of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima. He was also an outspoken critic of communist theory.("Albert Camus." Biography.com. A&E Networks Television, 02 Apr. 2014. Web. 19 May 2017.)
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Camus married Francine Faure, a pianist and mathematician.
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Francine Camus gives birth to two twins, Jean and Catherine.
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In 1957, Camus wins the Nobel Prize for literature
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Albert dies in a car accident in Villeblevin, France. He had planned to travel by train with his wife and children, but at the last minute he accepted his publisher's proposal to travel with him.
