The Resume

(January 22, 1849-May 14, 1912)
Born in Stockholm, Sweden
Wrote the dramas 'Master Olaf' (1872), 'The Father' (1887), 'Miss Julie' (1888), 'The Creditors' (1889), 'The Stronger' (1889), 'The Dance of Death' (1901), 'A Dream Play' (1901) and 'The Ghost Sonata' (1907)
Wrote the novels 'The Red Room' (1879), 'Natives of Hemso' (1887) and 'Inferno' (1897)
Wrote the autobiography 'The Son of a Servant' (9 volumes, 1886-1909)

Why he might be annoying:

He was married and divorced three times, with his marriages breaking up largely over his paranoid accusations of infidelity.
In opposing female suffrage, he called women 'half-apes... mad, criminal, instinctively evil animals.'
When he was tried for blasphemy for his play 'Married,' he claimed he was the victim of a conspiracy by feminists, with the Queen of Sweden behind it.
He drank heavily.
He pursued alchemy and claimed to have discovered how to turn base metals into gold.
He said the spirit of Edgar Allan Poe, who had died the year Strindberg was born, had migrated into his body.

Why he might not be annoying:

He was also a painter whose seascapes are highly praised.
He was called the father of modern Swedish literature.
When he was passed over for the Nobel Prize in Literature in favor of Selma Lagerlof, over 20,000 Swedes donated to a fund to honor him.
Eugene O'Neill and director Ingmar Bergman cited him as an influence.

Credit: C. Fishel

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• Atheists Who Found God
• Breeders [Have 5 or More Kids] (Ranked: 6)
• C. Fishel's Profiles [Series 28]
• Celebrities Born on the Same Date [January] (Ranked: 1221849)
• College Drop Outs
• I am a Lutheran
• I am an Atheist
• I am from Stockholm, Sweden
• I Died in 1912 (Ranked: 63)
• I Died in the City I Was Born In
• I Have Stomach Cancer
• I'm a Bastard
• I'm Depressed [Reportedly Uni-polar]
• Look at My Guitar
• My Spouse is at Least Ten Years Younger than Me
• Names that are Dates
• Painters
• Playwrights
• Profiles 28251-28500 (Ranked: 28453)
• We Married at Highclere Castle

Year In Review:

In 2023, Out of 3 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 12 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 6 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 4 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 8 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 9 Votes: 88.89% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 7 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 17 Votes: 41.18% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 13 Votes: 53.85% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 15 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 8 Votes: 87.50% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 62 Votes: 66.13% Annoying