Kamel Daoud’s The Mersault Investigation catapulted Albert Camus’s The Stranger into the center of conversation in many literary circles. After helping get Camus’s Algerian Chronicles published in English in 2013, Alice Kaplan’s latest effort, Looking For The Stranger, explains how the book came to be. Camus expert and Los Angeles Review of Books History Editor Robert Zaretsky writes, “Kaplan tells this story with great verve and insight, all the while preserving the mystery of its creation and elusiveness of its meaning.”