Roger Whitney Shattuck (August 20, 1923, in Manhattan, New York – December 8, 2005, in Lincoln, Vermont) was an American writer and teacher. He was best known for his three books on author Marcel Proust and others on French literature, art, and music of the twentieth century. His biography of Proust, Marcel Proust (1975), won a National Book Award. He was a founding member and the second president of the anti-postmodernist literary organization the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics.
Books in order of publication:
The Banquet Years: The Arts in France, 1885–1918: Alfred Jarry, Henri Rousseau, Erik Satie, Guillaume Apollinaire (1958)
Proust’s Binoculars (1963)
Half Tame (1964)
The Banquet Years: The Origins of the Avant-Garde in France, 1885 to World War I (1968). Revised edition of the 1958 book.
Proust (Fontana Modern Masters, 1974)
Marcel Proust (1975) (won National Book Award Arts & Letters prize in 1975)
The Forbidden Experiment: The Story of the Wild Boy of Aveyron (1980)
The Innocent Eye: On Modern Literature & the Arts (1984)
Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography (1994)
Candor and Perversion: Literature, Education, and the Arts (1998)
Proust’s Way: A Field Guide to In Search of Lost Time (2000)
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