A copy of Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler is available in the Archives & Special Collections.
Today marks the birth of Hungarian-born English author and journalist, Arthur Koestler (1905-1983). Koestler began writing to support himself while living in Palestine, eventually becoming the Middle East correspondent for a German newspaper. He was a member of the Communist Party of Germany (1931-1938) and active in anti-Fascist movements in France, Germany and Spain. After leaving the Communist Party of Germany Koestler wrote Darkness at Noon a novel set during the 1938 Stalinist Great Purge and Moscow show trials.