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Katsushika Hokusai: The Artist Who Produced 30,000 Works and Still Felt Like an Amateur
Jun 15, 202621 min
Jean Sibelius: The Finnish National Hero Who Burned His Eighth Symphony and Went Silent
Jun 15, 202620 min
Edouard Manet: The Painter Whose Art Was So Shocking It Needed Armed Guards
Jun 15, 202624 min
William Faulkner: The Nobel Winner Who Failed English Class and Reinvented the American Novel
Jun 15, 202621 min
Franz Liszt: The Piano Rockstar Who Became a Monk and Invented the Modern Concert
Jun 15, 202625 min
Giacomo Puccini: The Operatic Genius Whose Scandalous Private Life Nearly Destroyed Him
Jun 15, 202625 min
Robert Frost: The Secret Darkness Behind America's Favorite Folksy Poet
Jun 15, 202622 min
Joseph Haydn: The Starving Servant Who Invented the Symphony and the String Quartet
Jun 15, 202619 min
Johannes Vermeer: The Hidden Chaos Behind the Most Serene Paintings in Art History
Jun 15, 202624 min
P.T. Barnum: The Showman Who Invented Modern Hype and Made America Love Being Fooled
Jun 15, 202622 min
Edward Hopper: The Painter Who Captured American Loneliness Better Than Any Novelist
Jun 15, 202622 min
Paul Cezanne: The Painter Who Rebuilt the Modern Eye and Made Cubism Possible
Jun 15, 202622 min
Henry David Thoreau: The Messy Reality Behind Walden's Self-Reliant Mythology
Jun 15, 202622 min
Paul Gauguin: The Brutal Reality Behind the Tahitian Paradise He Painted
Jun 15, 202619 min
Charles Ives: The Insurance Executive Whose Weekend Compositions Defined American Music
Jun 15, 202619 min
John Steinbeck: The Nobel Laureate With a Dangerous Secret Life
Jun 15, 202622 min
Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Dark Personal Losses Behind America's Most Radical Optimist
Jun 15, 202619 min
Piet Mondrian: The Eccentric Mystic and Jazz Fanatic Behind the Perfect Grids
Jun 15, 202621 min
Wassily Kandinsky: The Synesthete Who Heard Colors and Painted the Spiritual Sound of the Universe
Jun 15, 202622 min
Pierre-Auguste Renoir: The Arthritic Painter Who Fought for Beauty When Modernism Called It Irrelevant
Jun 15, 202622 min
Robert Schumann: The Dual Personalities, the Doomed Romance, and the Madness That Ended in the Rhine
Jun 15, 202621 min
J.M.W. Turner: The Barber's Son Who Scandalized Britain With Light and Fury
Jun 15, 202623 min
Edgar Degas: The Bitter, Brilliant Misanthrope Behind the Ballet Paintings
Jun 15, 202620 min
Gustav Mahler: The Tortured Conductor Who Built the Bridge From Romanticism to Modern Music
Jun 15, 202623 min
George Frideric Handel: The Sword-Fighting, Market-Crashing Composer Who Wrote Messiah in Twenty-Four Days
Jun 15, 202613 min
Hector Berlioz: The Obsessive Romantic Who Reinvented the Orchestra
Jun 15, 202620 min
Giuseppe Verdi: How Personal Tragedy Forged Italy's Greatest Opera Composer
Jun 15, 202624 min
Johannes Brahms: The Perfectionist Haunted by Beethoven's Shadow Who Burned His Own Music
Jun 15, 202622 min
Franz Schubert: The Composer Who Died at Thirty-One With 1,500 Hidden Masterpieces
Jun 15, 202623 min
Kurt Vonnegut: From a Meat Locker in Dresden to Slaughterhouse-Five
Jun 15, 202619 min
George Gershwin: The Genius Who Bridged Jazz and Classical Music and Died of a Brain Tumor at Thirty-Eight
Jun 15, 202621 min
Francisco Goya: The Court Painter Who Covered His Walls With Monsters
Jun 15, 202621 min
Greta Thunberg: From Lonely School Striker to the Most Polarizing Climate Activist on Earth
Jun 15, 202615 min
Albert Schweitzer: The Nobel Laureate Who Built a Hospital in a Chicken Hut
Jun 15, 202619 min
Anton Bruckner: The Sonic Cathedrals and Troubled Legacy of Classical Music's Most Insecure Genius
Jun 15, 202621 min
Caravaggio: The Murderer Who Painted the Most Divine Images in Western Art
Jun 15, 202620 min
Claude Debussy: The Serene Impressionist Whose Private Life Was Anything But Peaceful
Jun 15, 202621 min
El Greco: The Painter Whose Three-Hundred-Year Rebellion Against Convention Finally Won
Jun 15, 202623 min
Marcel Proust: The Social Climber Who Locked Himself in a Cork-Lined Room and Wrote a Masterpiece
Jun 15, 202620 min
Thomas Hardy: The Two Burials of a Novelist Whose Heart Ended Up in a Biscuit Tin
Jun 15, 202624 min
Victor Hugo: The Radical Outlaw Life and Secret Codes of France's Greatest Literary Giant
Jun 15, 202619 min
Walt Whitman: The Original American Hustler Who Wrote His Own Rave Reviews
Jun 15, 202622 min
Carl Friedrich Gauss: The Prince of Mathematics Who Sat on His Greatest Discoveries
Jun 15, 202622 min
Nikolai Gogol: The Man Who Burned Dead Souls and Starved Himself to Death
Jun 15, 202625 min
Miguel de Cervantes: The One-Armed Soldier Who Created the Modern Novel With Don Quixote
Jun 15, 202621 min
Vaslav Nijinsky: The Rebel Dancer Who Redefined Male Ballet and Lost His Mind
Jun 15, 202623 min
Emily Bronte: The Recluse of Haworth Who Wrote Wuthering Heights and Died at Thirty
Jun 15, 202623 min
Herman Melville: The Resurrection of America's Most Neglected Masterpiece
Jun 15, 202617 min
Vladimir Nabokov: The Butterfly Scientist Who Wrote Lolita and Scandalized the World
Jun 15, 202620 min
Alan Turing: The Codebreaker Who Invented the Computer and Was Destroyed by the Country He Saved
Jun 15, 202621 min