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His early career was in journalism. In he joined the Communist Party of Germany but, disillusioned, he resigned from it in and in published a devastating anti-totalitarian novel, Darkness at Noonwhich propelled him to international fame.
Over the next 43 years, Koestler espoused many political causes and wrote novels, biographies, and numerous essays. In Koestler was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, and three years later with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia in its terminal stages. He committed suicide along with his wife in in London. According to Koestler’s authorized biography, Henrik’s father, Leopold Koestler, was a soldier in the Austrian Empire’s army, who changed his name to “Lipot” to sound more Hungarian.
According to another biography, Leopold Koestler was a Russian Jew who had settled in northeastern Hungary inwhere he married a local woman. Henrik left school at age 16 due to his parents’ strained financial circumstances and took a job as an errand boy with a firm of drapers. Determined to improve his prospects, he taught himself English, German and French, and in the course of a few years obtained promotion to the sales department and eventually became a partner in the firm.
A few years later, he set up his com business importing textiles into Hungary. The outbreak of World War I in deprived Henrik Koestler of his foreign suppliers, and his business collapsed. Facing destitution, the Koestlers gave up their Budapest apartment and moved temporarily to a boarding house in Vienna. From that point, the family never again had a permanent home neither in Budapest nor in Vienna, moving frequently from one boarding house to another.
In the autumn ofa few months before his final exams Arthur, in an “unpremeditated and inexplicable act”, burned his Matriculation Book, effectively putting an end to his prospect of graduating from the university.
The Matriculation Book contained the records of examinations he had passed, the courses attended and other relevant details and it was irreplaceable; graduating without the book was impossible. In the middle of MarchKoestler wrote a long and dishonest letter to his parents, telling them that he koestlsr going to Palestine for a year as an assistant engineer in a factory and that on his return home the experience will put him in good stead for finding a well-paid job in Austria and laying the foundations for his future prosperity.
On 1 April he left Vienna for Palestine. However, his application to join the collective, Kvutzat Heftzibawas rejected by its members. For the next twelve months he supported himself by whatever menial work or commercial enterprise he could find in the cities of Haifa, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, but for most of the time he was penniless and starving, and frequently had to depend on the kindness of friends and acquaintances for survival.
His occasional involvement with the writing or editing of broadsheets and other publications, mostly in German, were all short-lived. Later that same year, through the intervention of a friend, Koestler obtained the position of Middle East correspondent for the prestigious Berlin-based Ullstein-Verlag group of newspapers. He returned to Jerusalem and for the next two years produced a succession of detailed political essays, as well as some lighter reportage, for his principal employer and for other newspapers.
He travelled extensively, com heads of state, kings, presidents and prime ministers and greatly enhanced his reputation as a journalist. Koedtler by Koestler was tired of living in Palestine and in Junewhile on leave in Berlin, he successfully lobbied at Ullstein for a transfer away from Palestine. A year later, inhe was called to Berlin and appointed science editor of Vossische Zeitung and science adviser to the entire Ullstein newspaper empire. The same year kestler was Ullstein’s natural choice to represent the paper on board the Graf Zeppelin airship’s Polar flight, which carried a team of scientists and the Polar aviator Lincoln Ellsworth to 82 degrees North thus not to the North Pole and back.
During the flight the airship descended on the sea near Franz Jozef Land and met the Soviet icebreaker “Malygin”, which had Umberto Nobile on board, who in with Amundsen and Ellsworth and in visited the North Pole with his own airships “Norge” and “Italia”.
Koestler was the only journalist on board and his live wireless broadcasts and subsequent articles and lecture tours throughout Europe brought him further kudos. Soon after that he was appointed foreign editor and assistant editor-in-chief of the mass-circulation Berliner Zeitung am Mittag. Throughout Koestler had been moving closer to the Communist ideology and on 31 Decemberhe applied for membership of the Communist Party of Germany.
The s Koestler wrote a book on the Soviet Five-Year Plan but it did not meet with the approval of the Soviet authorities and it was never published.
In September he returned to Paris and for the next two years was active in anti-Fascist movements writing propaganda under the direction of Willy Muenzenberg, the Mmuerte chief propaganda director in the West. In he married Dorothy Ascher, a fellow Communist activist they separated amicably in He had to escape when recognised and denounced as a Communist by a former German colleague. In he returned to Loyalist Spain as a war correspondent of News Chronicle but was captured by the Nationalist rebels.
From February until June he was imprisoned under sentence of death. He was eventually exchanged for a ‘high value’ Nationalist prisoner held by the Loyalists, the wife of one of Franco’s ace fighter pilots. He is, to this day, one of the only authors to have been sentenced to death and witnessed death row. This experience is thoroughly revisited in Dialogue with Death. After his release he returned to France and in order to support himself accepted an offer to author a sex encyclopaedia, which was published to great success under the title The Encyclop?
In Julyhe finished work on his kestler The Gladiators. Later that year he resigned from the Communist Party and started work on a new novel that in was to be published in London with the title Darkness at Noon.
That same year,he became editor of the German weekly paper in Paris Arthurr The Future In he met and formed an attachment to the sculptor Daphne Hardy, arhur subsequently translated the manuscript of Darkness at Noon from German into English and smuggled it out of France for publication in London. They released him in early due to strong British pressure. Koestler described the period to and his incarceration in Le Vernet in his book Scum of the Earth.
Shortly before the German invasion loestler France, in order to get out of the country, he joined the French Foreign Legion, deserted it wrthur North Africa, and made his way to England.
Arriving in England without an entry permit he was imprisoned pending examination of his case. He was still in prison when his book Darkness at Noon was published in early Immediately upon release he volunteered for army service and while awaiting his call-up papers and a posting he wrote Scum of the Earth January-Marchwhich was the first book he wrote in English. For the muere twelve months doalogo served in the Artgur Corps In March he was assigned to the Ministry of Information where he worked as a scriptwriter for propaganda broadcasts and films.
In his spare time he wrote a novel, Arrival and Departure, and a number of essays, which were subsequently collected and published in The Yogi and the Commissar. One of the essays, titled On Disbelieving Atrocities, originally published in the New York Times dealt with the Nazi atrocities being committed against the Jews, as did several of his other articles at the time.
Daphne Hardy, who had been doing war work in Oxford, joined him in London in but they parted company a few months later, although they remained very good friends until Koestler’s death. In December he travelled to Palestine with an accreditation from The Times newspaper.
Many years later, Koestler wrote in his memoirs: The post-war years January he and Mamaine moved to a house he bought in France, where he wrote a contribution to The God That Failed and finished work on Promise and Fulfilment. The book received poor reviews both in the U. His other book to come out in was Insight and Outlook.
This too received lukewarm reviews. In July he commenced work on the first volume of his autobiography, Arrow in the Blue.
In the same month a koestleg part-time juerte started working for him, Cynthia Jefferies, who eventually would become his third wife. In the autumn he started work on The Age of Longing on which he continued to work until the summer of During the summer he had reached agreement with his first wife, Dorothy, for an amicable divorce and their marriage was annulled on 15 December This cleared the way for his marriage to Mamaine Paget, which took place on 15 April at the British Consulate in Paris.
In the autumn he went to the United States on a lecture tour and was at the same time actively lobbying for permanent resident status in the U. At the end of October, entirely on impulse, he bought a small island with a house on it on the Delaware River in Pennsylvania with the intention of living there at least for part of each year. For two years, —47, Koestler worked on Insight and Outlook. In March he went on a literary and political lecture tour in the United States.
When soon after his return from the U. Mamaine Paget went with him. They arrived in Israel on 4 June and stayed there until October.
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Later that year they koestleer to leave England for a while and move to France. News that his ka application for British nationality had been granted reached him in France in late December. Early in the new year he returned to Arthhur to swear the oath of allegiance to the British Crown. In January he and Mamaine moved to a house he bought in France. That same year his book Insight and Outlook was published. He commenced work on his autobiography Arrow in the Blueassisted by his new part-time secretary, Cynthia Jefferies.
In August his koeslter marriage to Mamaine collapsed. They separated but remained very close right up to her sudden and unexpected death in June The book Mamaine Koestler’s Lettersedited by Mamaine’s twin sister Celia Goodman, gives useful insight into their lives together over those years.
After their separation he abandoned earlier plans for living overseas and decided to make his permanent home in England. In May he bought a three-storey Georgian town merte on Montpelier Square in London and sold his houses in France as well as the one in the United States. The first two volumes of his autobiography, Arrow in the Bluewhich covers his life up to December when he joined the German Communist Party, and The Invisible Writing, which covers the years towere published in and respectively.
A collection of essays, The Trail of the Dinosaur and Other Essays, largely on the perils facing civilization, was published in On 13 DialkgoJanine Graetz, with whom Koestler had an on-off relationship over a period of years in the s, gave birth to a daughter fathered by him.
Koestler had virtually no contact with his daughter throughout his life in spite of repeated attempts by Janine to persuade him to meet Cristina and take some interest in her.
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Koestler’s main polemic during was his campaign for the abolition of capital punishment and hanging. In July he started work on Reflections on Hanging. Later that same month his former secretary, Cynthia Jefferies, arrived from New York, where she was living at the time, for a few weeks holiday and she was pleased to resume former relations with him, both professional and private.
When her extended stay in London was over she returned to New York.

In early November, Koestler cabled Jefferies asking her to come back to London for six months to resume secretarial work for him. Jefferies was delighted to arrhur. She wound up her affairs in New York and by the end of the month was back in London working for him and with him at the house on Montpelier Square — and she stayed with him for the rest of her life, and his.
The emphasis of the book changed dialoogo ‘A history of Man’s Changing Vision of the Universe’, which became also the book’s subtitle.
