Sue Prideaux is an Anglo-Norwegian novelist and biographer. She has strong links to Norway and her godmother was painted by Edvard Munch, whose biography she later wrote under the title Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream. Prior to taking up writing she trained as an art historian in Florence, Paris, and London.
Books in order of publication:
Rude Mechanicals, Abacus, 1997
Magnetic North, Little, Brown, 1998
Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream, Yale University Press, 2005
Thore Heramb, Labyrinth, 2006
Strindberg: A Life, Yale University Press, 2012
I Am Dynamite! A Life of Nietzsche, Tim Duggan Books, 2018
Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin, W. W. Norton, 2024
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