Picasso

The life of the world's greatest modern artist by one of Britain's greatest artists.
'Positive, original, diverting and highly effective.' - Sunday Times
'This biography achieves that rare distinction of never having a dull page.' - Independent on Sunday

Patrick O'Brian was born in 1914 and published his first book, Caesar, when he was only fifteen. In the 1960s he began work on the idea that, over the next four decades, evolved into the twenty-novel long Aubrey-Maturin series (with an extra unfinished volume published posthumously). In 1995 he was awarded the CBE, and in 1997 he received an honorary doctorate of letters from Trinity College, Dublin. He died in January 2000 at the age of 85.