Douglas Stuart

Douglas Stuart is a Scottish-American author. His New York Times-bestselling debut novel, Shuggie Bain, won the 2020 Booker Prize and the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. It was the winner of two British Book Awards, including Book of the Year, and was a finalist for the National Book Award, PEN/Hemingway Award, National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, Kirkus Prize, and as several other literary awards. Stuart’s writing has appeared in The New Yorker. His new novel, Young Mungo, a story of queer love and working-class families, was praised by Kirkus as “romantic, terrifying, brutal, tender, and, in the end, sneakily hopeful.”