Scan Needed (With A Twist)

I am helping one of my neighbour's kids with a small literature project.
He has decided to include a picture of a particular stamp that was issued in 1967.
I only collect up to 1960 so I don't have a copy of the stamp.

I thought, just for fun, instead of telling you which stamp it is I will make a quiz of it.
It is a famous author who in one of his books wrote: "Every sunset, the old man would come out on his balcony in his undershirt and spit at the local cats that gathered on the sidewalk below him."

I have had a very busy month (for a retired old geezer) and I think I deserve a little fun.

Would it be Henry David Thoreau?



I'm totally guessing here, but it's the right year...

-Allen

Not this one, Allen, sorry!

Was thinking Hemingway, but then thought Francis Parkman...

Neither one, I'm afraid.

Is it a US stamp. or Canadian?

Thats a very good question..i checked the U.S. and Canada and have not come up with a candidate !!

I confirmed no well known author stamps in 1967 from Canada.

There were also ones from Uruguay, Mexico, Brazil and Poland but not well known (at least to me)

I think it may be one of a set of four semi-postals from France.

Albert Camus:


Image from ebay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/FRANCE-1967-ALB...NH_W0QQitemZ170484095250QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Stamps_ROWStamps?hash=item27b1a4d912

This has got to be Hemingway. Is there such a stamp?

@puzzler

The right answer and a perfect scan. Thank you.
Albert Camus, Nobel Prize Literature, 1957.
Incidentally, the quote is from La Peste (The Plague) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Plague.