Description: "An unorthodox investigative literary biography of a mysterious graphomaniac whose nearly 150 diaries are rescued from a dumpster by the author"--
Brief description: Alexander Masters is the author of Stuart: A Life Backwards, which won the Guardian First Book Award and the Hawthornden Prize; was short-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Costa Biography Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award; and was made into an award-winning film produced for the BBC and HBO. He lives in Sussex.
Review Quotes: "An affecting, bittersweet portrait of an anonymous person rescued--if rescued it is--from obscurity quite by accident ... A lovely, elegant book of interest to historians and biographers as much as to general readers." - Kirkus Reviews