Alexander Stuart

Totally under the spell of California, his home for many years, Alexander Stuart (also known as Alexander Chow-Stuart) is a British-born author and screenwriter, whose novels, non-fiction and children's books have been translated into eight languages and published in the US, Britain, Europe, Israel and throughout the world. His most controversial novel, The War Zone, about a family torn apart by incest, was turned into a multi-award-winning film by Oscar-nominated actor/director Tim Roth. The novel is available in an updated and revised 20th Anniversary print and Kindle edition, including a diary of the making of the film and an afterword by Tim Roth. At the time of the book's publication, The War Zone won Britain's prestigious Whitbread Prize for Best Novel (now the Costa Book Awards), but was stripped of the prize amid much public controversy, when one of the judges - who hated the book - politicked behind the scenes. Stuart's non-fiction book, Life On Mars, about his time spent living in Miami's iconic South Beach, inspired a two-hour UK Channel Four television documentary, The End of America. As a screenwriter, Stuart has worked with actors ranging from Angelina Jolie to Jodie Foster to Kiefer Sutherland, and with directors including Tim Roth, Danny Boyle, Nicolas Roeg and Jonathan Glazer. Stuart is married to Charong Chow and they have two young children. He is currently writing a sequel to The War Zone.