Winner of The Los Angeles Times Book Award in history and chair of the French department at Yale University, Alice Kaplan’s THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ALBERT CAMUS’ THE STRANGER, a biography of the classic novel that has become a rite of passage, synonymous with coming of age as a reader and a thinking person — a life story of a work of literature that will include its genesis, its Algerian setting, and its fascinating road to publication during the Nazi occupation of France, to Alan Thomas at University of Chicago Press, by Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (world English)