George Painter

George Painter

George Duncan Painter, OBE (5 June 1914 – 8 December 2005)cite web|first=Ronald| last=Hayman| title =George Painter: Writer whose life of Proust became the standard work | publisher = The Guardian | date = 2005-12-05 | url=http://books.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,11617,1675304,00.html| accessdate = 2007-07-31] , known as George D. Painter, was an English author most famous as a biographer of Marcel Proust.

Painter was born in Birmingham. His father was a schoolmaster, and his mother was an artist. He studied classics at Trinity College, Cambridge and later lectured in Latin at the University of Liverpool for one year. From 1938 until World War II and again after the war, he worked at the British Museum in the printed books section.

His two volume biography of Proust was published in 1959 and 1965, and is still widely considered to be one of the finest literary biographies in the English language. [Smith, Dinitia (2000-04-13) 'Why Proust? And Why Now?' The New York Times. ] Its second volume won the Duff Cooper Prize. His later work "Chateaubriand: Volume 1 – The Longed-For Tempests" was awarded the 1977 James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

Bibliography

* "Andre Gide: A Critical Biography" Details taken from a copy of "Marcel Proust: A Biography", London, Chatto and Windus (1959) - no ISBN ]
* "The Road to Sinodun" (Poems)
* "Andre Gide: Marshlands and Prometheus Misbound (Translation)

* "Marcel Proust: Letters to His Mother" (Translation)

* "Marcel Proust: A Biography" (In two volumes)

* "William Caxton: A Biography"

* "The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation" (with R. A. Skelton and Thomas E. Marston)

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