Alexandra Fuller
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Alexandra Fuller (born 1969 in England) is an African author.
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight is her debut book, a memoir of when she lived with her family on a farm in Rhodesia, later called Zimbabwe. After the Rhodesian Bush War, or Second Chimurenga, in 1981, the Fullers moved first to Malawi, then to Zambia. 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 Guardian's First Book Award. Scribbling the Cat, her second book, was released in 2004. It won the Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage in 2006.
In her third book, The Legend of Colton H. Bryant, she narrates the tragically short life of a Wyoming roughneck in his mid-20s who in 2006 fell to his death on an oil rig owned by Patterson–UTI Energy.
Fuller received a B.A. from Acadia University in Nova Scotia, Canada. 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, United States, where they still live. They have three children.
