### Clue: Spin doctors inaccurate about Society writer (6)
### Answer: PROUST 
 ### Explanation: Definition: writer
 PR(abbrev. for "Public Relations", a term to refer to spin doctors;spokespersons who give a positive spin to events) + OUT(inaccurate, as in "his calculation was out by a few thousand") **containing**(about) S(abbrev. for "Society").
Answer: Marcel, French writer, whose most prominent work was translated as "Remembrance Of Things Past".