Erik Jensen's biography of flawed artist Adam Cullen wins Sydney literary award

By Linda Morris
Updated December 7 2015 - 10:08am, first published November 25 2015 - 5:00pm
Adam Cullen's biographer Erik Jensen: "I decided early on that I wouldn't recoil from the book." Photo: Josh Robenstone
Adam Cullen's biographer Erik Jensen: "I decided early on that I wouldn't recoil from the book." Photo: Josh Robenstone
Artist Adam Cullen at his Wentworth Falls studio before his untimely death in 2012. Photo: Quentin Jones
Artist Adam Cullen at his Wentworth Falls studio before his untimely death in 2012. Photo: Quentin Jones

Has a writer's research gone too far when the subject of his planned book sprays him with shotgun pellets and pushes him off the back of a moving motorcycle?

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