'When I die and I go up there and Jesus Christ asks me what I did with my life, I'll say to him, 'I hope you have a long time to sit and listen, because do I have a story for you!'' They left Africa in 1994 and moved to Wyoming, where Fuller still resides. She married an American river guide in Zambia in 1993. Her reviews have appeared in the New York Times Book Review The Financial Times and the Toronto Globe and Mail.įuller was born in England in 1969 and moved to Africa with her family when she was two. Her latest book, Leaving Before the Rains Come, was published in January 2015 (Penguin Press).įuller has also written extensively for magazines and newspapers including the New Yorker Magazine, National Geographic Magazine, Vogue and Granta Magazine. The Legend of Colton H Bryant was published in May, 2008 by Penguin Press and was a Toronto Globe and Mail, Best Non-Fiction Book of 2008.Ĭocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness was published in August 2011 (Penguin Press).

Her 2004 Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier (Penguin Press) won the Ulysses Prize for Art of Reportage. Her debut book, Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood (Random House, 2001), was a New York Times Notable Book for 2002, the 2002 Booksense best non-fiction book, a finalist for the Guardian’s First Book Award and the winner of the 2002 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize. Alexandra Fuller has written five books of non-fiction.

Scribbling the Cat by Alexandra Fuller