亞曆山大•馬斯特斯（Alexander Masters, 1965— ），英國傳記作傢，現居英國劍橋，曾在一傢流浪漢收容所工作過。《倒帶人生》（2005）是其處女作，該書榮獲《衛報》“第一書奬”，並被英國廣播公司（BBC）製作成電影，由湯姆•哈迪和本尼迪剋特•康伯巴奇飾演劇中角色。他的第二部書《我地下室裏的天纔》（2011）是關於住在他所住公寓地下室裏的一位天纔數學傢西濛•菲利浦斯•諾頓的生平。

This is a major new launch for the paperback edition of the most original, captivating and award-winning memoir of the year. "Stuart, A Life Backwards", is the story of a remarkable friendship between a reclusive writer and illustrator ('a middle class scum ponce, if you want to be honest about it, Alexander) and a chaotic, knife-wielding beggar whom he gets to know during a campaign to release two charity workers from prison. Interwoven into this is Stuart's confession: the story of his life, told backwards. With humour, compassion (and exasperation) Masters slowly works back through post-office heists, prison riots and the exact day Stuart discovered violence, to unfold the reasons why he changed from a happy-go-lucky little boy into a polydrug-addicted-alcoholic Jekyll and Hyde personality, with a fondness for what he called 'little strips of silver' (knives to you and me). Funny, despairing, brilliantly written and full of surprises: this is the most original and moving biography of recent years.