Joseph Conrad (1857- 1924). He was a Polish-British writer who is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in the English language. He was born on December 3, 1857, in Berdychiv, Ukraine. Conrad eventually joined the British Merchant Navy and became a naturalized British citizen in 1886. Conrad’s experiences at sea had a profound influence on his writing and he would later draw upon his adventures and observations in his novels and stories. In 1895, Conrad published his first novel, Almayer’s Folly. Conrad’s writing was marked by its complex characters, psychological depth and vivid depictions of the sea and the exotic locales he had visited.
