Alexander Masters is this year’s winner of the Biographer’ Club Prize for an Exceptional Contribution to Biography

Alexander Masters with Lucy Hughes-Hallett – 23 January 2020

We are thrilled to announce that Alexander Masters  is this year’s winner of the Biographer’ Club Prize for an Exceptional Contribution to Biography.

Alexander Masters’s prize-winning Stuart: A Life Backwards, is the story of Stuart Shorter, a homeless man living in Cambridge. This  brilliantly innovative biography created a sensation when it appeared in 2005. It was followed by The Genius in My Basement, a life of the mathematician Simon Norton. Alexander has also published A Life Discarded: 148 Diaries Found in the Trash. 

Alexander Masters will be joined in conversation by Lucy Hughes-Hallett, author of The Pike, a biography of D’Annunzio. She has published Heroes and Cleopatra as well as a novel and, most recently, Fabulous, a collection of short stories.

Please join us in saluting Alexander Masters on 23rd January. 

6.30pm for 7.00-8.30pm at the October Galleries, 24 Old Gloucester Street, London WC1N 3AL.