Marcel Proust: A Life by William C. Carter
A portrait of the life and times of Marcel Proust, one of the greatest literary voices of the 20th century. Based on letters, memoirs, notebooks and manuscripts, it examines Proust's character and development as an artist, the glittering Parisian world of which he was a part, and the passions that enabled him to write his masterpiece, "A la recherche du temps perdu" ("In Search of Lost Time").