Arthur Koestler

Arthur Koestler (September 5, 1905 - March 3, 1983) was a journalist, novelist, political activist, and social philosopher. He was the author of many popular books including Arrow in the Blue, (Volume I of his autobiography), The Yogi and the Commissar (a collection of essays, many dealing with Communism), The Sleepwalkers, The Act of Creation, and The Thirteenth Tribe. His most famous work is Darkness at Noon, a novel about the Purges of the Soviet state during the Stalin era.

Koestler bibliography (excluding autobiography)

• Von Weissen Nächten und Roten Tagen (1933)
• The Good Soldier Schweik Goes to War Again.... (1935, unfinished and unpublished)
• L?Espagne ensanglantée (1937)
• Spanish Testament (1937)
• The Gladiators (1939)
• Darkness at Noon (1940)
• Dialogue with Death (1942, abridgement of Spanish Testament)
• Arrival and Departure(1943)
• The Yogi and the Commissar and other essays (1945)
• Twilight Bar (1945, drama)
• Thieves in the Night (novel) (1946)
• The Challenge of our Time (1949)
• Promise and Fulfilment: Palestine 1917-1949 (1949)
• Insight and Outlook (1949)
• The Trail of the Dinosaur and other essays (1955)
• Reflections on Hanging (1956)
• The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man?s Changing Vision of the Universe (1959)
• The Watershed (1960, abridgement of The Sleepwalkers)
• Lotus and the Robot (1960)
• Control of the Mind (1961)
• Hanged by the Neck (1961, reuses some material from Reflections on Hanging)
• Suicide of a Nation (1963)
• The Act of Creation (1964)
• The Ghost in the Machine (1967), Penquin reprint 1990: ISBN 0140191925
• The Case of the Midwife Toad (1971: about the biologist Paul Kammerer, who researched Lamarckian inheritance)
• Drinkers of Infinity: Essays 1955-1967 (1968)
• The Roots of Coincidence (1972)
• The Call Girls: A Tragicomedy with a Prologue and Epilogue (play) (1972)
• The Lion and the Ostrich (1973)
• The Heel of Achilles: Essays 1968-1973 (1974)
• The Thirteenth Tribe (1976)
• ' (collected extracts, 1978)
• Bricks to Babel (collected extracts, 1980)
• Kaleidoscope (Essays from ?Drinkers of Infinity?, and ?The Heel of Achilles? and later pieces and stories, 1981)

Contributor

• Encyclopaedia of Sexual Knowledge (1935)
• Foreign Correspondent (1939),
• The Practice of Sex (1940)
• The God That Failed (1950) (collection of testimonies by ex-Communists)
• Beyond Reductionism: The Alpbach Symposium. New Perspectives in the Life Sciences (co-editor, 1969)
• The Challenge of Chance: A Mass Experiment in Telepathy and Its Unexpected Outcome (1973)
• Life After Death, (co-editor, 1976)
• Humour and Wit. I: Encyclopedia Britannia. 15th ed. vol. 9.(1983)
• humour - Encyclopædia Britannica(by Arthur Koestler)