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Alexander Masters |
| Alexander Masters was born in New York and brought up in Devon. He studied Physics and Mathematics at London and Cambridge before embarking on a varied career including working as a van driver, free magazine publisher, warehouse packer and postman. It was while he was working at Wintercomfort, the Cambridge day centre for the homeless, as a part-time fundraiser, that he became friends with Stuart Shorter and started work on his biography, Stuart:A Life Backwards, which would go on to win an Arts Council Writers Award in 2003. |
| Stuart Shorter’s brief life was one of turmoil and chaos. Scattered with glimpses of the author’s friendship with Stuart in the years before his death, Masters gives us Stuart’s life in reverse, tracing his route backwards through the Post Office heists and attempts at suicide and the spells inside many of this country’s prisons, back to a troubled time at school and learning difficulties and a violent childhood that acted like a springboard into the trouble that was to follow him all his life. Funny, despairing, uplifting, brilliantly-written, it is one of the most original biographies of recent years. |
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