“About” pages can be so stuffy and structured, I thought it would be fun to do The Proust Questionnaire on my newsletter, Ford Knows Books, for new and classic subscribers alike. It’s cheeky and fun, and gives you a little bit more than name/rank/serial number.
LINK – My Proust Questionnaire
The Proust Questionnaire was not created by Marcel Proust, the French author of what was once called in English Remembrance of Things Past, but now is usually styled In Search of Lost Time. Apparently, it was a set of questions in a Victorian “confession album” popular to the time in which guests would be invited to give their answers. Proust’s were discovered in the album of his friend “Antoinette” two years after his death and published in the French journal Les Cahiers du Moi. They’ve been a popular set of questions used by many interviewers since, including the host of TV program Inside the Actors Studio, James Lipton.
I’ll be publishing another questionnaire soon here on my website – Top Ten Favorite Things in My Life – stay tuned!
Marcel Proust (1871 – 1911) photo by Otto Wegener
TROY FORD 
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