Author of Stuart: A Life Backwards and The Genius in My Basement

Authors

Writers and friends
Writers and friends

A page of authors and friends close to Alexander Masters — family, fellow writers and the people whose lives are woven through his books.

  • Flora DennisFlora: My splendid girlfriend, read Music at the University of Cambridge, staying on to do an M.Phil. in Musicology and a Ph.D. on music, printing and the court in sixteenth-century Ferrara. Between 2001 and 2006 she was a Research Fellow at the AHRC
  • Joan BradyJoan Brady: My mother is the first woman and the only American ever to win Britain’s prestigious Whitbread Book of the Year Award.
  • Dexter MastersDexter Masters: My father, was a prolific writer and international bestselling author who helped found the Consumer’s Union. His legacy includes heading the first task force to publicize the dangers of smoking as well as being among the first to draw
  • Dido DaviesLink to my first and strictest reader; author of a well-received award-winning biography of William Gerhardie.
  • Adrian ClarkeAdrian Clarke is an English photographer. Originally trained and practising as a civil liberties lawyer, Clarke made the switch to photography in 2003.
  • Janie HamptonJanie Hampton’s "The Austerity Olympics, When the Games came to London in 1948", published by Aurum Press. www.janiehampton.co.uk Described by The Financial Times as ‘Marvellously rich’ and Journal of Olympic History as ‘A gold medal performance