Sue Prideaux
Sue Prideaux is an Anglo-Norwegian novelist and biographer.
Life
Her grandmother was muse to the explorer Roald Amundsen and her godmother was painted by Edvard Munch, whose biography she later wrote under the title Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream.She studied as an art historian. She has written biographies of August Strindberg, Thore Heramb, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Paul Gauguin, as well as fiction.
Her work appeared in the New Statesman.
Works
- 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