Author's representation of corrupt males (6,6)

I believe the answer is:

marcel proust

'author's' is the definition.
(Marcel Proust is an example)

'representation of corrupt males' is the wordplay.
'representation of' indicates an anagram (I've seen this in other clues).
'corrupt'+'males'='corruptmales'
'corruptmales' is an anagram of 'MARCEL PROUST'.

(Other definitions for marcel proust that I've seen before include "novelist" , "Corrupt males (anag) -- French author" .)

I've seen this clue in The Everyman puzzle in The Observer.

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