Bestselling author Phoebe Hoban chronicles Alice Neel's colourful and chaotic life, from her turn-of-the-century upbringing through her later years as an art world outsider when, with the help of the feminist movement, she was finally given her rightful place as one of the greatest painters of the 2[...]

Painter Jean-Michael Basquiat was the Jimi Hendrix of the art world: in less than a decade he went from being a teenage graffiti writer to an international art star, and then died of a drug overdose at age twenty-seven. This biography charts his trajectory, from his troubled childhood to his volatil[...]