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's journalism

Koestler worked for a variety of newspapers, including Vossische Zeitung (science editor) and B.Z. am Mittag (foreign editor) in the 1920s, as a French language freelancer in the early thirties, and edited Zukunft in the mid thirties, an anti-Nazi, anti-Stalinist German language paper based in Paris.

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After his release from captivity in Spain, Koestler worked for the News Chronicle. He would later produce work for various English and American papers including The Sunday Telegraph on a number of his different interests.

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