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Plague Author/Context  On January 4, 1960, the car Albert Camus
was driving to Paris crashed, killing Camus instantly and
robbing the world of an author who had won the Nobel Prize just
three years before. Camus was forty-six when he died--young for
a writer--and most likely would have continued to write
important books for many years to come. He had the first draft
of a new novel in his briefcase when he died. Camus' death was a
great tragedy for his readers, who found in his books both
beautiful writing and serious discussions of human freedom,
social responsibility, and the search for happiness in a world
that Camus believed ended, inescapably, with death. "I do not
like to believe that death opens onto another life," he wrote.
"For me it is a closed door." (Rhein 4).  Camus was born in 1913
in Algeria, on the northwest coast of Africa. Oran, the setting
for The Plague, is a port ci