Johan August Strindberg (22 January 1849–14 May 1912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg's ...
In this exhaustively researched and beautifully produced biography, Prideaux (Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream) tackles the peripatetic and tumultuous life of August Strindberg, the famously difficult ...