Gene Fendt is the Albertus Magnus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nebraska, Kearney, where he has been teaching for over thirty years. He reads Camus’ Plague every year alongside Hamlet, Aristotle’s Ethics and Kant’s Foundations in his introductory ethics course. He has published 6 other books and numerous articles on a wide range of figures and issues including Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Anselm, Hume, Kant, and Kierkegaard, as well as Camus, Pinter, Stoppard and Shakespeare. He has also won a number of awards for creative writing in poetry and playwrighting.