Beethoven

Edmund Morris, the Pulitzer Prize winner who wrote the Theodore Roosevelt biographies The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt and Theodore Rex, as well as the novel Dutch, turns his attention to Ludwig van Beethoven, the German composer. Morris presents Beethoven's life as a close look at creative power at work, treating its subject as one of the rare figures who shaped Western culture.

The book is part of HarperCollins' Eminent Lives series, which asks accomplished authors to write about canonical figures. It suits readers who want a substantial, vividly written life of a composer, and those who care about how a towering creative mind operated.