· “Schultz's Torment Saint offers a candid, heavily researched and truly empathetic look into a troubled genius's life. As someone who knew Elliott Smith, I was grateful for the whole life arc and the connection of dots. It's a sensitive and inquisitive look at a beautifully talented soul.” —Sluggo, guitarist for the Grannies “Schultz personalizes and universalizes Elliott Smith. His balance of Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing. Torment Saint: The Life of Elliott Smith. likes. Major biography of musician Elliott Smith by William Todd Schultz, author of EMERGENCY IN SLOW MOTION on Diane Arbus and TINY TERROR on . William Todd Schultz’s Torment Saint: he Life of Elliott Smith attempts to separate what he calls “he Smith Myth” from reality by approaching the musician’s life through rigorous biographical study. Schultz is one of the fore- most thinkers in “psychobiography”—a developing ield of research that inte- .
William Todd Schultz's Torment Saint: The Life of Elliott Smith will likely go down as the definitive biography of the singer/songwriter, who died 10 years ago. Sympathetic but far from. After reading William Todd Schultz's magnificent biography Torment Saint: The Life of Elliott Smith, "King's" sounds like it's coming from the nether regions of Elliott's deepest subconscious, all the fears, doubts and second thought inner monologues that Smith shared with himself now live beyond time, within the haunted confines of. He's published three books, each a psychologically-focused study of an artist: Tiny Terror: Why Truman Capote Almost Wrote Answered Prayers (, Oxford University Press); An Emergency in Slow Motion: The Inner Life of Diane Arbus (, Bloomsbury); and Torment Saint: The Life of Elliott Smith (, Bloomsbury).
Torment Saint: The Life of Elliott Smith is a biographical book about the American singer-songwriter Elliott Smith, written by William Todd Schultz. It was released on October 1, , by Bloomsbury. Torment Saint draws on Schultz's careful, deeply knowledgeable readings and insights, as well as on more than hours of interviews with close friends from Texas to Los Angeles, lovers. William Todd Schultz is a personality psychologist who specializes in profiles of artists. He’s published three books—Tiny Terror on Truman Capote, An Emergency in Slow Motion on Diane Arbus, and Torment Saint on Elliott Smith—along with numerous articles and book chapters. He curates and edits the Oxford book series Inner Lives.
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