Curious if there was an author which led a particularly odd or interesting life. Feel free to post biographies as well which you recommend.
For me, I've always been interested in Yukio Mishima's life- The industry of his body of work, as well as his lifestyle of imperial Japan, though correct me if I'm wrong, ending in his committing seppuku after a failed overthrow of a military station in Japan, to broadly summarize it.
I've also been interested in the life of Robert E. Howard, who was working around the time of Lovecraft though committed suicide in 1936. Unfortunately I've not read any bios of the two.
How about you guys?