John Russell, New York Times Book Review
"as a biography--a life's story--the book needs no successor."
Book Description
At twenty the "Fra Angelico of Satanism", as Roger Fry was to call Aubrey Beardsley, was an obscure clerk in a London insurance firm. Three years later he was the most notorious — and perhaps the most influential — artist in England.
Here, then, is the marvelous boy—he died at twenty-five—as human being and as complex and tragic genius, in the rich context of 150 examples of his graphic art.
The original version of Aubrey Beardsley was a National Book Award nominee.
