Camus had married for the second time in 1940, to Francine Faure. 1945 saw the birth of his twin children, Jean and Catherine. In the same year Caligula was performed for the first time in Paris. In 1946/7 Camus was well-received in a lecture tour of the United States. 1947 saw the publication of Camus' best-selling novel, The Plague (La Peste). A year later Camus produced State of Siege (L'Etat de Siége) and the following year he embarked on a lecture tour of South America and The Just Assasins (Les Justes) is performed in Paris.
Camus endured new and worrying attacks of tuberculosis in 1949-51. These weren't just times of physical pain for Camus, in 1951, Camus publishes The Rebel (L'Homme Révolté) to great controversy. He, and is work is heavy criticized by Sartre and his magazine Modern Times (Les Temps Modernes). Camus severed relations with Sartre in 1952, the two never made up. The criticism hurt Camus and he fell into a depression. 1956 he publishes The Fall (La Chute), his reaction to the fallout of The Rebel. Sartre praises the work, he considers it a return to the 'old Camus'. Camus was awarded The Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. In the same year he publishes the selection of short stories Exile and The Kingdom (L'Exil et le Royaume).
Camus was killed in a car accident on January 4th 1960. His unfinished novel, The First Man (Le premier Homme) was in his briefcase, found in the wreckage. The First Man was published in 1995. This was the second of Camus' works to be published posthumously, A Happy Death
(La Mort heureuse) was released in 1970.
