Author

Books by Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust (1871–1922) was a French novelist who spent the last fourteen years of his life largely confined to a cork-lined bedroom in Paris, writing In Search of Lost Time. The son of a prominent physician and a Jewish mother from a wealthy family, he was a fixture of Parisian society before ill health and the death of his parents turned him inward. He published the first volume, Swann's Way, at his own expense in 1913, and was awarded the Prix Goncourt for Within a Budding Grove in 1919. He died before completing the final revisions to the last three volumes, which were published posthumously.