Arthur Koestler
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Notes
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
Life Events & Dasha
Change residence1929
MD Mercury 1917–1934→AD Rahu Jan 1927–Aug 1929→PD Mars 24 Jun 1929–18 Aug 1929
Joined group1931
MD Mercury 1917–1934→AD Jupiter Aug 1929–Nov 1931→PD Mars 04 Jun 1931–22 Jul 1931
Marriage1935
MD Ketu 1934–1941→AD Venus Dec 1934–Feb 1936→PD Rahu 31 May 1935–03 Aug 1935
Published/ Exhibited/ Released1937
MD Ketu 1934–1941→AD Mars Feb 1937–Jul 1937→PD Moon 20 Jun 1937–03 Jul 1937
Left group1938
MD Ketu 1934–1941→AD Rahu Jul 1937–Jul 1938→PD Mars 29 Jun 1938–21 Jul 1938
Published/ Exhibited/ Released1940
MD Ketu 1934–1941→AD Saturn Jun 1939–Aug 1940→PD Jupiter 12 Jun 1940–05 Aug 1940
Arrest1940
MD Ketu 1934–1941→AD Saturn Jun 1939–Aug 1940→PD Jupiter 12 Jun 1940–05 Aug 1940
Published/ Exhibited/ Released1941
MD Ketu 1934–1941→AD Mercury Aug 1940–Aug 1941→PD Saturn 06 Jun 1941–02 Aug 1941
Published/ Exhibited/ Released1943
MD Venus 1941–1961→AD Venus Aug 1941–Dec 1944→PD Jupiter 13 Apr 1943–23 Sep 1943
Joined group1945
MD Venus 1941–1961→AD Sun Dec 1944–Dec 1945→PD Saturn 24 May 1945–21 Jul 1945
Marriage1950
MD Venus 1941–1961→AD Rahu Oct 1948–Oct 1951→PD Mercury 29 Jan 1950–03 Jul 1950
Divorce dates1950
MD Venus 1941–1961→AD Rahu Oct 1948–Oct 1951→PD Mercury 29 Jan 1950–03 Jul 1950
Published/ Exhibited/ Released1951
MD Venus 1941–1961→AD Rahu Oct 1948–Oct 1951→PD Moon 30 Apr 1951–31 Jul 1951
Published/ Exhibited/ Released1951
MD Venus 1941–1961→AD Rahu Oct 1948–Oct 1951→PD Moon 30 Apr 1951–31 Jul 1951
Death of Mate1952
MD Venus 1941–1961→AD Jupiter Oct 1951–Jun 1954→PD Saturn 10 Feb 1952–13 Jul 1952
Published/ Exhibited/ Released1960
MD Venus 1941–1961→AD Ketu Jun 1960–Aug 1961→PD Venus 27 Jun 1960–06 Sep 1960
Marriage1965
MD Sun 1961–1967→AD Mercury May 1965–Mar 1966→PD Mercury 21 May 1965–04 Jul 1965
Published/ Exhibited/ Released1972
MD Moon 1967–1977→AD Saturn Nov 1971–Jun 1973→PD Venus 27 May 1972–01 Sep 1972
Death by Suicide03 Mar 1983
MD Mars 1977–1984→AD Venus Jun 1982–Aug 1983→PD Jupiter 30 Jan 1983–27 Mar 1983