Based in Shanghai, Los Angeles, London and Marrakech, Alexander Stuart (also known as Alexander Chow-Stuart) is a British-born novelist 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 (now reissued in an updated and revised 20th Anniversary Edition), about a family torn apart by incest, was turned into a multi-award-winning film by Oscar-nominated actor/director Tim Roth. At the time of the book's initial 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 increasingly trendy South Beach of the 1990s, inspired a two-hour British 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 artist-writer Charong Chow and they have two young children.