num_pages: 588
description: Unknown beyond the avant-garde at the time of his death, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) has been one of the most destructive and liberating influences on twentieth-century culture. During his lifetime he was a bourgeois-baiting visionary, and the list of his known crimes is longer than the list of his published poems. But his posthumous career is even more astonishing: saint to symbolists and surrealists; poster child for anarchy and drug use; gay pioneer; a major influence on artists from Picasso to Bob Dylan.
language: English
title: Rimbaud: A Biography
titlecomplete: Rimbaud: A Biography
characters: Arthur Rimbaud
genres: LGBT, France, History, Reference, Biography Memoir, Biography, Literature, Poetry, Nonfiction, Art
ratings_count: 1010
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction
publisher: W. W. Norton  Company