Alexandra Fuller
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Alexandra Fuller is an Anglo-African
author, who currently lives in the U.S. state of Wyoming
.
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.
Fuller’s articles and reviews have appeared in numerous publications including The New Yorker
, National Geographic, Granta
, The New York Times
, The Guardian
and The Financial Times.
Fuller received a B.A. from Acadia University
in Nova Scotia
, Canada
. In 2007 she received an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the same institution. She met her American husband, Charlie Ross, in Zambia, where he was running a rafting business for tourists. In 1994, they moved to his home state of Wyoming where they currently live in the town of Wilson
. They have three children.
, or Second Chimurenga, in 1981. She shares her experiences having her dad off in the county-side, for weeks on end, helping a local militia group. She tells stories of her dad teaching her and her sister how to shoot his FN rifle, and she shares funny stories about what a bad shot her mother is. After the Rhodesian Bush War
, the Fullers moved first to Malawi
, then to Zambia
.
Alexandra shows her reader the true sides of her sister, mom, and dad. Alexandra recalls hilarious stories about her mom getting drunk at dinner, and staying up all night. She also writes about her deeper problems, and issues. Some of these issues are war-related, being white growing up in an almost all black country, and the death of siblings and beloved animals.
Anglo-African
Anglo-Africans are primarily White African people of largely British descent who live or come from Sub-Saharan Africa and are Anglophone. A large majority live in South Africa...
author, who currently lives in the U.S. state of Wyoming
Wyoming
Wyoming is a state in the mountain region of the Western United States. The western two thirds of the state is covered mostly with the mountain ranges and rangelands in the foothills of the Eastern Rocky Mountains, while the eastern third of the state is high elevation prairie known as the High...
.
Biography
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 GuardianThe Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
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
Lettre Ulysses Award
The Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage has been given annually since 2003 for the best texts in the genre of literary reportage, which must have been first published during the previous two years...
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.
Fuller’s articles and reviews have appeared in numerous publications including The New Yorker
The New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...
, National Geographic, Granta
Granta
Granta is a literary magazine and publisher in the United Kingdom whose mission centers on its "belief in the power and urgency of the story, both in fiction and non-fiction, and the story’s supreme ability to describe, illuminate and make real." In 2007, The Observer stated, "In its blend of...
, The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
, The Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
and The Financial Times.
Fuller received a B.A. from Acadia University
Acadia University
Acadia University is a predominantly undergraduate university located in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada with some graduate programs at the master's level and one at the doctoral level...
in Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the most populous province in Atlantic Canada. The name of the province is Latin for "New Scotland," but "Nova Scotia" is the recognized, English-language name of the province. The provincial capital is Halifax. Nova Scotia is the...
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
. In 2007 she received an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the same institution. She met her American husband, Charlie Ross, in Zambia, where he was running a rafting business for tourists. In 1994, they moved to his home state of Wyoming where they currently live in the town of Wilson
Wilson, Wyoming
Wilson is a census-designated place in Teton County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 1,294 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Jackson, WY–ID Micropolitan Statistical Area...
. They have three children.
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
The story begins with Alexandra's, called Bobo by her family in the book, sister and parents moving to Rhodesia when she was two. The the book mainly focus on stories of while life while moving around Africa, and living trough and past the Rhodesian Bush WarRhodesian Bush War
The Rhodesian Bush War – also known as the Second Chimurenga or the Zimbabwe War of Liberation – was a civil war which took place between July 1964 and December 1979 in the unrecognised country of Rhodesia...
, or Second Chimurenga, in 1981. She shares her experiences having her dad off in the county-side, for weeks on end, helping a local militia group. She tells stories of her dad teaching her and her sister how to shoot his FN rifle, and she shares funny stories about what a bad shot her mother is. After the Rhodesian Bush War
Rhodesian Bush War
The Rhodesian Bush War – also known as the Second Chimurenga or the Zimbabwe War of Liberation – was a civil war which took place between July 1964 and December 1979 in the unrecognised country of Rhodesia...
, the Fullers moved first to Malawi
Malawi
The Republic of Malawi is a landlocked country in southeast Africa that was formerly known as Nyasaland. It is bordered by Zambia to the northwest, Tanzania to the northeast, and Mozambique on the east, south and west. The country is separated from Tanzania and Mozambique by Lake Malawi. Its size...
, then to Zambia
Zambia
Zambia , officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. The neighbouring countries are the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania to the north-east, Malawi to the east, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia to the south, and Angola to the west....
.
Alexandra shows her reader the true sides of her sister, mom, and dad. Alexandra recalls hilarious stories about her mom getting drunk at dinner, and staying up all night. She also writes about her deeper problems, and issues. Some of these issues are war-related, being white growing up in an almost all black country, and the death of siblings and beloved animals.
External links
- Official Website
- Powells.com Author interview
- Sketchy Biography as winner of the Lettre Ulysses Award
- http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2009/09/27/style/t/index.html#pageName=27boulderw - New York Times article on Hell's Backbone Grill, Boulder, Utah