Strindberg

A Life

Sue Prideaux

Novelist, satirist, poet, photographer, painter, alchemist and hellraiser – August Strindberg was all of these, and yet he is principally known in Arthur Miller’s words as ‘the mad inventor of modern theater’ who led playwriting out of the drawing room into the snake pit of psychological warfare. A gripping and highly readable narrative, this biography describes the eventful and complicated life of a playwright whose influence is undiminished 100 years after his death.

First published:: 2012
Published by:: Yale University Press
Length:: Hardcover 371 pages

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About the author

Sue Prideaux’s first biography Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream (2005) won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Strindberg: A Life (2012) won the Duff Cooper Prize, and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. I Am Dynamite!: A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche (2018) was awarded the Hawthornden Prize, longlisted for the Cundhill History Prize and Rathbones Folio Prize, shortlisted for the Historical Writers' Association Non-Fiction Crown and was The Times Biography of the Year.