“A beautiful memoir of a life-long obsession, a peek behind the curtains at the biographer’s art, and, not least, a rich and vivid portrait of Camus himself.”
—Benjamin Moser, Harper’s Magazine
Still Following Albert Camus
My book, Camus, A Romance, came out this summer and after eight years of working on it and effectively living with Albert Camus, I find myself missing roaming around in his life and missing being in France of the 1940's and 1950's. As a post-script, I have decided that I want to go to Algeria, where Camus grew up and where, for safety sake, I was unable to go during the years of writing my book, which coincided with heightened fundamentalist violence. For anyone who has been there in the last decade, in and around Algiers, or further south into rugged country, I'd love to hear about your experience.
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Elizabeth Hawes (also known as Betsy Hawes Weinstock) is the author of New York, New York, How the Apartment House Transformed the Life of the City, 1869-1930. A former staff member and contributor to The New Yorker, she has written for The New York Times Magazine and Book Review, The Nation and numerous other publications. She also wrote Martha Stewart's best selling books Entertaining and Weddings.
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