Arthur Koestler. Born 1905 in Budapest
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Hungary. Died 1983 in England. Koestler was educated at the University of
Vienna. Koestler was the author of many popular books including "Darkness at Noon" (a novel about the evils of
Communism), "The Yogi and the Commissar" (another book about Communism), "The Sleepwalkers", "The Act of Creation", and "The Thirteenth Tribe" (about the
Khazars). Koestler was fluent in
Hungarian,
German, and
English, and knew some rusty
Hebrew. During the 1940s he lived for a short time in
Israel.