Contents

Introduction

Part I: The Demons

1  The First Twelve Years

Pablo Picasso • Clara Bow • Johnny Cash • Andy Warhol • Michael Jackson • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

2  Teenage Wasteland

Mary Shelley • Irving Berlin • Arthur Miller • Marlon Brando • John Hughes

3  Perpetual Virginity

Dante Alighieri • Jane Austen • W. B. Yeats • Charles M. Schulz • Lenny Bruce

4  My Way

Michelangelo • Maria Callas • Walt Disney • Madonna • J. K. Rowling • James Cameron

5  Rage Against the Machine

Edgar Allan Poe • Oscar Wilde • Egon Schiele • H. G. Wells • Dorothy Parker • Chuck Berry

6  Precarious Partnerships

Gilbert and Sullivan • Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz • Johnny and Joey Ramone • Ike and Tina Turner • Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski

7  Substance over Style

Judy Garland • Charlie Parker • John Belushi • Heath Ledger • Amy Winehouse

8  Archetypes

Marilyn Monroe • Sylvia Plath • Kurt Cobain • Vincent van Gogh

Part II: The Art

9  Tortured Artists Timeline: A Brief and Deliberately Random History of Pain, Suffering, and Artistic Triumphs

Appendix: Source List