Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust (full name Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust) was born on July 10, 1871 in Auteuil, France as son of the doctor Achille-Adrien Proust and Jeanne Clemence Weil. He was a French novelist, essayist and critic, best known as the author of "À la recherche du temps perdu" (in English, In Search of Lost Time; earlier translated as Remembrance of Things Past), a monumental work of ...

Date added: 26 November '07