Alexander the Corrector: the tormented genius who unwrote the bible.

A more jarring note occurs in connection with Ludwig Wittgenstein, yet another tormented genius who looms large in the novel.

And she shows real sensitivity for the tormented genius who dug his own grave when he moved to Hollywood.

Strindberg was a tormented genius and at times a madman.

The family of Walt Disney today condemned a new book that depicts the film maker as a tormented genius who served for years as an informer for the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

It tells the story of Rick Martin, a tormented genius from childhood until his death at age 30.

SINCE its publication in 1936, the diary of Vaslav Nijinsky has been treated as the visionary testament of a tormented genius.

The brother, a tormented genius (loosely based on last century's great, idiosyncratic philosopher, Ludwig Wittgenstein), has just returned from a mental health institute, complicating the dynamics between the three siblings.

In 1956, "Lust for Life" depicted Vincent van Gogh as a tormented genius isolated for his radical notions of art - a portrayal that surely resonated with the film's blacklist-era audiences.