George Painter

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George Duncan Painter, OBE (5 June 1914 – 8 December 2005)[1] was an English author most famous as a biographer of Marcel Proust. Many of his books he wrote under the name George D Painter (practically eliminating the word 'Duncan').

Painter was born in Birmingham. His father was a schoolmaster, and his mother was an artist.[1] 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 the second volume won the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize.[1] His later work Chateaubriand: Volume 1 – The Longed-For Tempests was awarded the 1977 James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

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  1. ^ a b c Hayman, Ronald (2005-12-05). George Painter: Writer whose life of Proust became the standard work. The Guardian. Retrieved on 2007-07-31.
  2. ^ a b c d e Details taken from a copy of Marcel Proust: A Biography published by Chatto and Windus London in 1959 - No ISBN


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