Arthur Koestler

Social : None | 00 midnight in Vienna, Austria (Began attending University of Vienna) | Family : None | Change residence 1929 (Moved to Paris, Berlin) | Social : None | Joined group 1931 (Communist Party) | Relationship : None | Marriage 1935 (First marriage, Dorothy Asher) | Work : None | Published/ Exhibited/ Released 1937 (Book, "Spanish Testament") | Social : None | Left group 1938 (Communist Party) | Work : None | Published/ Exhibited/ Released 1940 (Book, "Darkness at Noon") | Crime : None | Arrest 1940 (Arrested by Vichy Government) | Work : None | Published/ Exhibited/ Released 1941 (Autobiography, "The Scum of the Earth") | Work : None | Published/ Exhibited/ Released 1943 (Book, "Arrival and Departure") | Social : None | Joined group 1945 (Became British subject) | Relationship : None | Marriage 1950 (Second marriage, Mamaine Paget) | Relationship : None | Divorce dates 1950 (Dorothy Asher) | Work : None | Published/ Exhibited/ Released 1951 (Book turned play, "Darkness at Noon") | Work : None | Published/ Exhibited/ Released 1951 (Book, "Age of Longing") | : None | Death of Mate 1952 (Mamaine Paget) | Work : None | Published/ Exhibited/ Released 1960 (Book, "The Lotus and the Robot") | Relationship : None | Marriage 1965 (Third marriage, Cynthia Jefferies) | Work : None | Published/ Exhibited/ Released 1972 (Book, "Roots of coincidence") | : None | Death by Suicide 3 March 1983 (Drug OD, age 77) | Diagnoses : Major Diseases | Cancer (Luekemia, cancer of the blood) | Diagnoses : Major Diseases | Parkinson's | Family : Relationship | Marriage more than 15 Yrs (First and third marriages) | Family : Relationship | Marriage less than 3 Yrs (Second marriage, two years) | Family : Relationship | Number of Divorces (One) | Family : Relationship | Number of Marriages (Three) | Family : Relationship | Widowed (By second wife) | Lifestyle : Social Life | Travel (For spiritual guidance) | Lifestyle : Home | Expatriate (Hungary to Britain) | Lifestyle : Home | Many moves | Passions : None | Civil/ Political (Arrested for political crimes) | Passions : None | Lawsuit instigated (Sued playwright who adapted his novel) | Passions : None | Prison sentence (For political crimes, death sentence) | Personal : Religion/Spirituality | Psychic (Believed in psychic experiences) | Personal : Death | Suicide (With his wife) | Vocation : Occult Fields | Parapsychology | Vocation : Politics | Activist/ political (Participated in Spanish Civil War) | Vocation : Politics | Government employee (British Pioneer Corps, Ministry of Information) | Vocation : Politics | Party Affiliation (Communist Party) | Vocation : Writers | Autobiographer | Vocation : Writers | Columnist/ journalist (Newspaper reporter) | Vocation : Writers | Critic | Vocation : Writers | Fiction | Vocation : Writers | Metaphysics/ Parapsychology | Notable : Famous | Founder/ originator (Koestler Foundation, Chair at Edinburgh) | Notable : Book Collection | Culture Collection