Arthur Koestler

Arthur Koestler was born in Budapest in 1905, gave up his engineering studies in Vienna, was a press correspondent in Berlin and joined the Communist Party at the end of 1931; he left it in 1938. Sentenced to death in Spain in 1937, released after a few months, interned in France, he reached London in 1940. He then wrote in English, from 1941, published books on the sciences, and from 1955 conducted a campaign against the death penalty in Great Britain. He took his own life in 1983.

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