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Marcel Proust

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Profession
Novelist
Died
Nov 18, 1922
Zodiac
Cancer
Born in
France
About
A French novelist and essayist, he is best known for the seven-volume, 4,300-page novel, In Search of Lost Time (also known as Remembrance of Things Past). His other works include Swann's Way and Time Regained.
Family
He was a homosexual who based one of his famous characters on his lover, Albert, whose name he feminized to Albertine to better serve the novel's plot. His father, Achille Adrien Proust, was a renowned epidemiologist.

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