Marcel Proust, the reclusive asthmatic French novelist, spent almost all of his last 15 years, until his death in 1922, confined to a cork-lined bedroom on Boulevard Haussmann in Paris.

Finding Forrester In Gus Van Sant's film a famous reclusive novelist (Sean Connery, left) takes a promising high school student (Rob Brown) under his wing.

This first offering of raw material helps us to understand the reclusive novelist as a human being.

A reclusive novelist named Bill Gray works endlessly on a novel he chooses not to finish.

Maurice Blanchot, a reclusive French novelist and essayist who influenced the postmodernist intellectual movement championed by Jean-Paul Sartre and Michel Foucault, died on Feb. 20.

Patrick O'Brian Dies The reclusive novelist, whose stories about a British naval commander in the Napoleonic Wars sold millions of copies and earned him comparisons to Melville, was 85.

Sean Connery is a reclusive novelist; Rob Brown, a newcomer, is a young basketball star who, it turns out, is also a brilliant writer.

Their prey are Widmark, portraying a Hemingway-like but reclusive novelist, and Greer, playing a journalist for a periodical resembling Life Magazine who has tracked down the novelist's whereabouts.

Christina (Donogh Rees), a blond Meryl Streep lookalike, is a local literary critic who's on her way to interview a reclusive novelist.

She next turns up at the modest bungalow of the reclusive novelist, which is when the evil promise of the movie starts to fade into utter confusion.