While studying art in Paris, his step-father bought the newspaper The Constitutional so that he could remain in France as a correspondent.  
While studying art in Paris, his step-father bought the newspaper The Constitutional so that he could remain in France as a correspondent.  His early works, such as Catherine and A Shabby Genteel Story, were published under pen names like Charles Yellowplush and George Savage Fitz-Boddle, while works in his own name include The Newcomes and The Virginians.  FTP, name this English novelist, best known for The History of Pendennis, Barry Lyndon, Henry Esmond, and Vanity Fair.
While studying art in Paris, his step-father bought the newspaper The Constitutional so that he could remain in France as a correspondent.  
William Makepeace {Thackeray}