Albert Camus, 1913-1960 was an Algerian-French philosopher and author. Or as Camus would have said (and indeed often said), he was a 'Man and a thinker'.
Camus was most famous for his book L'etranger (the Outsider0 and his essay The Myth of Sisyphus. Thes e both, albeit in different ways point out the absurdity of life, whilst particularly in the Outsider, demonstrate some of the hypocricies of conventional living.
He was often associated with the existentialist movement which was headed by Jean-Paul Sartre, but he always wanted to disassociate himself from any particular school of thought.
Like Sartre, he believed life was absurd and like Sartre he disassociated himself from the shackles of convention and eschewed monogamy, although he did marry.
In 1957 he became, at 44 the second youngest person to have won the Nobel Prize for literature. He died in 1960, following a road accident.