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Famous People Who Were Reclusive, Anonymous, or Very Private

Name these people who avoided the public eye in one way or another.
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1818–1848
Author of Wuthering Heights who lived a quiet, isolated life in Yorkshire
Emily Brontë
1830–1886
American poet who rarely left her house in Amherst, Massachusetts
Emily Dickinson
1848–1903
French painter who abandoned Europe to live and paint in Tahiti
Paul Gauguin
1871–1922
French novelist who wrote In Search of Lost Time from a cork-lined room
Marcel Proust
1905–1976
Eccentric billionaire aviator who became a hermit in later life
Howard Hughes
1905–1990
Swedish actress who retired young and lived privately in New York
Greta Garbo
1919–2010
Vanished from public life after publishing The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
1926–2016
Author of To Kill a Mockingbird who shunned interviews for fifty years
Harper Lee
1928–1999
Film director of 2001: A Space Odyssey known for his secrecy
Stanley Kubrick
1933–2023
Wrote The Road and No Country for Old Men; rarely granted interviews
Cormac McCarthy
1937–
Gravity's Rainbow novelist who avoids photos and interviews
Thomas Pynchon
1943–
The Tree of Life director who is famously protective of his private life
Terrence Malick
1946–2006
Former Pink Floyd frontman who lived in isolation in Cambridge
Syd Barrett
1950–
Cartoonist of The Far Side who withdrew from public view after 1995
Gary Larson
1958–
Calvin and Hobbes creator who quit cartooning and disappeared from media
Bill Watterson
1990s–
Anonymous British street artist known for political stencil art
Banksy
1993–2021
French electronic duo who kept their identities hidden behind robot helmets
Daft Punk
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