Alexander Masters 2 @ 5x15 - Genius in My Basement

September 19th 2011, The Tabernacle Alexander Masters is the author of Stuart: a Life Backwards, the critically acclaimed book about a homeless man called Stuart Shorter who he met while studying at Cambridge University and working in a homeless shelter. It won the Guardian First Book Award and was chosen as a World Book Night Title. He wrote the television adaptation of the book—a joint BBC/HBO venture from Sam Mendes’ studio. His new book is “an intimate portrait of an everyday genius“. It is the biogra