Alexander Masters

Alexander Masters is a British biographer, illustrator, and journalist with a MSc in physics. His three award-winning works of creative non-fiction incorporate biography,  memoir, science journalism, illustrations, and discarded diaries, to explore the remarkable lives of exceptional but unknown people. These include Stuart: a life backwards (2005), which won the Guardian First Book award and the Hawthornden prize and was turned into an HBO/BBC film, The Genius in my Basement (2012), and  A Life Discarded: 148 diaries Found in a Skip (2017) . During his eight-month residency at the HWK from in 2023-2024, he worked on another mixed genre book about the science and ethics of medical research funding and trials.