Case Studies

Tortured Artists features profiles of forty-seven creative figures, past and present, from various creative disciplines — literature, music, drama, film, and visual art. Uncovering the many ways in which pain and suffering fueled the world’s best-known artistic achievements, the book reveals the common thread of unpleasantness that binds creative expression of every conceivable type.

Here are a few of the artists profiled in Tortured Artists.