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 Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award; and was made into an award-winning film produced for the BBC and HBO.
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In 2001, 148 tattered and mold-covered notebooks were discovered lying among broken bricks in a bin on a building site in Cambridge, England. Tens of thousands of pages were filled to the edges with urgent handwriting. They were a small part of an intimat... SEE MORE