The Man and the Artist) is a biography of Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg, written by Finn Benestad and Dag Schjelderup-Ebbe in 1980.

[1] The book earned Benestad and Schjelderup-Ebbe the Edvard Grieg Prize in 1981.

[2] The biography, originally written in Norwegian language, was translated into Russian in 1986 by Nicolay Mochov.

The Man and the Artist, came in 1988, translated by William H. Halverson and Leland B. Sateren and published by University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln/London.

[2] Changes in the second edition include material based on a large collection of Grieg's manuscripts and letters rediscovered in New York City in 1984, saved from Nazi Germany in the 1930s.