Marcel Proust

Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (French pronounced: maʁsɛl pʁust) (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, Remembrance of Things Past), a monumental work of twentieth-century fiction published in seven parts from 1913 to 1927.

Marcel Proust
Proust in 1895
Born	(1871-07-10)10 July 1871 Auteuil, Paris, France
Died	18 November 1922(1922-11-18) (aged 51) Paris, France
Occupation	Novelist, essayist, critic
Genre	novel
Notable works	Remembrance of Things Past

Proust was a homosexual.^[1] He died of pneumonia.