A French author that's Algerian born.
His father died in the first World War.
Tuberculosis made him feel forlorn.
His family struggled being poor.
At a young age he was shown to be bright.
He played sports and enjoyed the theater.
He claimed sports taught him about wrong and right.
He wrote "The Possessed" for the actors.
Soon the Nazis came and took France.
He tried to resist their foul control.
He was in the underground resistance.
Soon France was set free thank to De Gaulle.
He befriended Sartre and De Beauvoir.
He studied Existentialism.
Romance and arguments turned things quite sour.
So Camus pioneered Absurdism.
Life is void of all meaning and absurd.
Take advantage and set yourself free.
Be a rebel and make your own voice heard.
Have passion and spontaneity.
Won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
He didn't think he deserved the win.
He wrote "The Plague," "The Fall," and "The Stranger."
Yet he remained so humble within.
