Some of the world's greatest and most-loved artists died under the age of forty. But how did they turn relatively short careers into such long legacies? What drove them to create, against all the odds? Pairing biographical texts with Anna Higgie's illustrations, Kate Bryan examines the lives and legacies of 30 great artists who died too young, including Vincent van Gogh, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Eva Hesse, Aubrey Beardsley, Johannes Vermeer, Egon Schiele, Amedeo Modigliani, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Keith Haring, and Paula Modersohn-Becker.