According to Wikipedia: "Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (French pronunciation: [ma's?l p?ust]) (10 July 1871 - 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, essayist and critic, best known as the author of À la recherche du temps perdu (in English, In Search of Lost Time; earlier translated as Remembrance of Things Past), a monumental work of twentieth-century fiction published in seven parts from 1913 to 1927."