Barmy Biogs: Potty Painters, Writers & other Barmy Artists

Adam Sutherland is an award-winning journalist and non-fiction writer with over 20 years` experience in the industry. He has written for publications including The Observer, Wired and Esquire magazines, and has won the PPA Specialist Writer of the Year Award for his coverage of sport, and a BSME award for Young Writer of the Year. He started his writing career covering bands and music for style magazines The Face, i-D and Arena, but more recently has expanded to cover film, new media and business. He has written a series of business titles for young adults on companies such as Nike, Google and Facebook, and biographies of rapper Jay-Z and Apple founder Steve Jobs.

1: Rivera - Tall tales
2: van Gogh - Who needs ears anyway?
3: Byron - Animal magic
4: Dickens - An obsession with death
5: Dickinson - The writer who never left the house
6: Eliot - The writer who loved practical jokes
7: Carroll - The word inventor
8: Twain - The first stand-up comedian
9: Christie - The writer who never wrote a single word
10: da Vinci - The painter who was obsessed with the war
11: Wilde - The man who dressed as a woman
12: Tolkien - The writer who thought he was a Hobbit
13: Fitzgerald - The writer who hated his feet