George Painter

George Duncan Painter OBE (1914–2005) was an English biographer best known for his acclaimed two-volume biography of Marcel Proust (1959, 1965), the second volume of which won the Duff Cooper Prize and is considered one of the finest literary biographies in English. Literature. His later work Chateaubriand: Volume 1 – The Longed-For Tempests (1977) earned the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and he also wrote biographies of André Gide and William Caxton while serving as deputy curator of the British Museum's incunabula department.