Arthur Kessler

Arthur Koestler CBE (UK /ˈkɜːstlər/, US /ˈkɛst-/; German: Arthur Koestler, pronounced: [ˈaʁtuːɐ̯ ˈkœstlɐ]; Hungarian: Kösztler Artúr, pronounced: [ˈkøstlɛr ˈɒrtuːr]; September 5, 1905 – March 3, 1983), a Hungarian-Jewish British writer, journalist and critic. Koestler is a former member of the Communist Party. Out of reflection on the Great Purge of the Soviet Union, his thoughts gradually tended to be liberal, and he eventually wrote the famous political novel "Darkness at Noon" in the history of Western literature, which criticized the Great Purge and accused Stalinism.