Profile
Alexander Masters
Alexander Masters is an author and homeless worker. His first book, Stuart: a Life Backwards, was a Sunday Times bestseller and the winner of the Guardian First Book Award and Whitbread Book of the Year 2005 in the Biography category. He recently adapted Stuart: a Life Backwards for a BBC film. Alexander Masters lives in London.
Alexander Masters in the news
SIMON: THE GENIUS IN MY BASEMENT
From the author of ‘Stuart: A Life Backwards’; a warm and witty portrait of a harmless, eccentric, bona fide genius.
Publication date: UK 21st Jun 2012
THE GENIUS IN MY BASEMENT
An intimate portrait of an everyday genius.
Publication date: UK 1st Sep 2011
THE GENIUS IN MY BASEMENT [ePub edition]
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An intimate portrait of an everyday genius.
Publication date: UK 1st Sep 2011
STUART: A Life Backwards [ePub edition]
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‘Stuart does not like the manuscript. He’s after a bestseller, “like what Tom Clancy writes”. “But you are not an assassin trying to frazzle the president with anthrax bombs,” I point out. You are an ex-homeless, ex-junkie psychopath, I do not add.’
Publication date: UK 25th Aug 2011
STUART: A Life Backwards
‘Stuart does not like the manuscript. He’s after a bestseller, “like what Tom Clancy writes”. “But you are not an assassin trying to frazzle the president with anthrax bombs,” I point out. You are an ex-homeless, ex-junkie psychopath, I do not add.’
Publication date: UK 1st Feb 2006