Alexandra Fuller was born in England in 1969. She moved to Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) with her family when she was two. After that country’s war of independence (1980) her family moved first to Malawi and then Zambia where she met her husband. In 1994, she came to the States. She lives now in Wyoming with her husband, two daughters and a son.
Education:
Fuller was educated in Scotland and Canada. She received a BA from Acadia University in Nova Scotia, Canada.
Memoir:
DON’T LET’S GO TO THE DOGS TONIGHT: An African Childhood.
Published by Random House in the USA December 2001. Also widely published in Europe, the Commonwealth and in Brazil and Israel. It has been translated into over a dozen languages.
Winner: Booksense Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2003
Winner: Winifred Holtby Memorial 2003
New York Times Paperback Best Seller
Los Angeles Times Best Seller
Boston Globe Best Seller
Memoir:
SCRIBBLING THE CAT: Travels with an African Soldier
Published by Penguin Press in the USA May 2004. Widely translated.
Winner: of the LETTRE ULYSSES AWARD FOR THE ART OF REPORTAGE 2005. www.lettre-ulysses-award.org
Her articles and book reviews have appeared in (among others):
National Geographic Magazine
The New Yorker Magazine
The New York Times Book Review
The New York Times Magazine
Outside Magazine
Real Simple
The London Guardian
Vogue
The Chicago Tribune
The Daily Telegraph
Salon.com
