About Alexandra Fuller

Alexandra Fuller was born in England in 1969 and in 1972 she moved with her family to a farm in what was then Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe. In 1981, after the civil war, they moved again, first to Malawi, then to Zambia. Alexandra’s first book, Don’t let’s go to the dogs tonight: an African childhood, was a national bestseller, a New York Times Notable Book of 2002, a finalist for the Guardian First Book Award, and was chosen as the BookSense Best Non-fiction Book of the Year 2002. Alexandra lives in Wyoming and has two children.