Vincent enjoyed some minor acclaim near the end of his life from one rising young Parisian star that recognized Vincent's brilliance and sold a few paintings as a result. Still, he was living in an Italian convalescent home, basically an asylum, and was rapidly deteriorating mentally and physically.
The notion that he died without enjoying even a minute fraction of what his legacy would be come is somewhat mistaken. It's also worth nothing that Vincent was brusque, rude, and often belligerent, so our conception of him as a deeply sympathetic tortured soul, while essentially correct, ignores the painful realities of mental illness and social stigmatization and its behavioral manifestations. He was a deeply complicated person that hurt people in his life, though rarely intentionally. His brother Theo suffered the most in trying to support him.
He is and always will be my favorite artist, and seeing his works in Musee D'Orsay was profoundly moving. Separating the person from the art might be impossible here, so it's best to have a more complete and complex picture of who he really was.
This book was outstanding.
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I have given you three links below, all to Amazon. The first is a non-academic biography by non-art historians. Looks like a decent read and what you're looking for. Art historians don't usually write biographies though, so the other two books I gave you are the collected letters. Not sure of the difference between them...but I love reading artist-letters. More boring than a biography but really cool nonetheless.