Saturday, March 29, 2014

Happy birthday - Alexandra Fuller

Today is the birthday of memoirist Alexandra Fuller.

From her Wikipedia entry:

She was born in the town of Glossop, England but moved with her family to Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia) in 1972 and was educated at boarding school in Harare. Her first book was Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, a memoir of life with her family living all around Africa. Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize in 2002, was a New York Times Notable Book for 2002 and a finalist for The Guardian's First Book Award. Scribbling the Cat, her second book, was released in 2004. It is an unflinching tale of war's repercussions. It won the Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage in 2005.

In her third book, The Legend of Colton H. Bryant, she narrates the tragically short life of a Wyoming roughneck who fell to his death at age 25 in February 2006 on an oil rig owned by Patterson–UTI Energy.

Her most recent book is Cocktail Hour Under The Tree of Forgetfulness about her mother, Nicola Fuller.

Fuller's articles and reviews have appeared in numerous publications including The New YorkerNational GeographicGrantaThe New York TimesThe Guardian and The Financial Times.








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