Alexander Stuart is a British-born, Los Angeles-based novelist and screenwriter. Stuart's books include The War Zone, Tribes, Life On Mars, Five And A Half Times Three, and the children's books, Joe, Jo-Jo And The Monkey Masks and Henry And The Sea. Stuart's books have been translated into eight languages and published in the United States, Britain, Europe, and Israel. His most controversial novel, The War Zone, about a family torn apart by incest, was turned into a film by Oscar-nominated actor/director Tim Roth in 1999. At the time of the book's initial publication in 1989, it was stripped of the Whitbread Best Novel Award amid controversy among the panel of three judges. A major influence on Stuart's life and work, particularly The War Zone, was the loss of his first son in 1989. In addition to scripting Roth's film of The War Zone, Stuart also served as executive producer of Nicolas Roeg's Insignificance, based on Terry Johnson's play, which brought together a fictionalized Marilyn Monroe, Albert Einstein, Joe DiMaggio and Senator Joe McCarthy, on a single night in New York.