Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad was born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski in 1857 in Berdychiv, then in the Russian Empire and now in Ukraine, to Polish parents. His father, a writer and translator, was exiled by the Russian authorities for his political activities, and both parents died while Conrad was a boy; he was raised by an uncle. At sixteen he went to Marseille to become a sailor, and he spent nearly twenty years at sea, mostly in the British merchant navy, becoming a captain and a British subject. In 1890 he captained a river steamer on the Congo River, an experience that inspired Heart of Darkness (1899). He settled in England and, writing in English, his third language, published his first novel, Almayer's Folly, in 1895. His other works include Lord Jim (1900), about a young officer haunted by an act of cowardice, Nostromo (1904), The Secret Agent (1907) and Under Western Eyes. He married Jessie George and had two sons. He died at his home in Kent in 1924.

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Faith: Nominally a Catholic; biographer Jeffrey Meyers describes him as an atheist. Source: Wikipedia