Alexandra Fuller

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The United Kingdom

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female

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http://alexandrafuller.org/

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Nonfiction

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Alexandra Fuller has written four books of non-fiction.

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.

Her 2004 Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier (Penguin Press) won the Ulysses Prize for Art of Reportage.

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.

Her latest book Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness will be published in August 2011 (Penguin Press).

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Books by Alexandra Fuller

Average rating: 3.86 · 18427 ratings · 2613 reviews · 8 distinct works

	Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight 391 avg rating — 13854 ratings — published 2001 — 26 editions	My rating:
	Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness 375 avg rating — 1970 ratings — published 2011 — 20 editions	My rating:
	Scribbling The Cat 362 avg rating — 1572 ratings — published 2004 — 25 editions	My rating:
	The Legend of Colton H. Bryant 394 avg rating — 613 ratings — 14 editions	My rating:
	Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfu 000 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America by Matt Weiland (Editor), Sean Wilsey (Editor), Myla Goldberg (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 374 avg rating — 601 ratings — published 2008 — 6 editions	My rating:
	To the Wedding by John Berger, Alexandra Fuller (Contribution by) 390 avg rating — 430 ratings — published 1995 — 9 editions	My rating:
	King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard, Alexandra Fuller 369 avg rating — 8350 ratings — published 1885 — 195 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Alexandra Fuller

“What is important is the story. Because when we are all dust and teeth and kicked-up bits of skin - when we're dancing with our own skeletons - our words might be all that's left of us.”
― Alexandra Fuller, Scribbling The Cat

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“Cowboy up, cupcake.”
― Alexandra Fuller, The Legend of Colton H. Bryant

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“How you see a country depends on whether you are driving through it, or live in it. How you see a country depends on whether or not you can leave it, if you have to.”
― Alexandra Fuller, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight

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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller

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Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

7 votes, 412%

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