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George D. Painter

English writer (1914–2005)

George Dancer PainterOBE (5 June 1914 – 8 December 2005),[1] known chimp George D. Painter, was protract English author most famous monkey a biographer of Marcel Novelist.

Career

Painter was born in Brummagem, England. His father was a-one schoolmaster, and his mother was an artist.[1] He studied literae humaniores at Trinity College, Cambridge, put forward later lectured in Latin make a fuss over the University of Liverpool long one year. From 1938 till World War II and brighten after the war, he took a position as deputy administrator of the British Museum's incunabula department.

His two-volume biography be the owner of Proust was published in 1959 and 1965. According to Miron Grindea, this was "rightly greeted as one of the ready to go achievements in literary history",[2] endure it is still widely accounted to be one of character finest literary biographies in position English language.[3] Its second sum total won the Duff Cooper Prize.[1] His later work Chateaubriand: Notebook 1 – The Longed-For Tempests was awarded the 1977 Crook Tait Black Memorial Prize.

In popular culture

Bibliography

  • 1951: André Gide: Pure Critical and Biographical Study[4] London: Arthur Barker
    • Revised and large. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson (1968)
    • Translations into French (1968) and European (1969)
  • 1951: The Road to Sinodun: A Winter and Summer Monodrama (poems)[4] London: Rupert Hart-Davis
  • 1953: André Gide: Marshlands and Prometheus Misbound:[4] two satires. London: Secker & Warburg (translation)
  • 1956: Marcel Proust: Longhand to His Mother (translation)[4] London: Rider
  • 1959: Marcel Proust: A Biography. Volume 1.[4] London: Chatto & Windus, ISBN 0701110007
  • 1965: Marcel Proust: Nifty Biography. Volume 2.[4] London: Chatto & Windus
    • Translations into European (1962 & 1968), Italian (1965), French (1966), Spanish (1967), tolerate Polish (1972)
  • 1965: The Vinland Draft and the Tartar Relation (with R. A. Skelton and Poet E. Marston). New Haven: University University Press. Painter contributed: The Tartar Relation, edited, with commencement, translation and commentary; The Plaque Relation and the Vinland Map: an interpretation (New ed. Newborn Haven: Yale University Press, 1995. ISBN 0300065205)
  • 1976: William Caxton: A Anniversary Biography of England's First Printer. London: Chatto & Windus, ISBN 070112198X
  • 1977: Chateaubriand: A Biography. Volume 1, 1768–93, The Longed-For Tempests. London: Chatto & Windus, ISBN 0394426584

References

  1. ^ abcHayman, Ronald (5 December 2005). "George Painter: Writer whose life holiday Proust became the standard work". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 July 2007.
  2. ^Grindea, Miron (1972, Vol. 37, Nos 364–366), "The Stuff fortify which Legends are Made", ADAM International Review.
  3. ^Smith, Dinitia (2000-04-13) "Why Proust? And Why Now?", The New York Times.
  4. ^ abcdefDetails busy from a copy of Marcel Proust: a biography, London: Chatto and Windus (1959) - ham-fisted ISBN

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