A second memoir, Cocktail Hour Under The Tree of Forgetfulness (2011), is about her mother, Nicola Fuller. Bryant (2008), she narrates the short life of a Wyoming roughneck who fell to his death at age 25 in February 2006 on an oil rig owned by Patterson–UTI Energy. In Fuller's third book, The Legend of Colton H. Her second book - Scribbling the Cat (published in 2004 about war's repercussions) received the Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage in 2005. In the same year it was featured in The New York Times list of 'Notable Books' and a finalist for The Guardian 's First Book Award. Her first book - Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight - (published in 2001 a memoir of life with her family living in southern Africa) won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize in 2002. She currently spends much of her time in a yurt near Jackson, Wyoming. In 1994, they moved to his home state of Wyoming. She met her American husband, Charlie Ross, in Zambia, where he was running a rafting business for tourists. She was educated at boarding schools in Umtali and Salisbury (renamed Harare after 1982). In 1972 Fuller moved with her family to Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).

Her articles and reviews have appeared in The New Yorker, National Geographic, Granta, The New York Times, The Guardian and The Financial Times. Alexandra Fuller (born in 1969 in Glossop, England) is a British- Rhodesian author.

Scribbling the Cat by Alexandra Fuller