biography
pronunciation:
[kestler]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1905–83)
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| biography:
| Writer and journalist, born in Budapest, Hungary. He studied science at Vienna, embraced the cause of Zionism, and became a journalist and editor, and a British citizen. His masterpiece is the political novel, Darkness at Noon (1940). His non-fiction books and essays deal with politics, scientific creativity, and parapsychology, notably The Act of Creation (1964), and he wrote several autobiographical volumes. He and his wife were active members of the Voluntary Euthanasia Society and, after he developed a terminal illness, they committed suicide. He endowed a chair of parapsychology at Edinburgh University. |
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