Wyoming Arts Council

Fuller’s first book, the memoir Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood (Random House, 2001), written in the dead of a Wyoming winter “in a fit of fearful homesickness… I wrote some of my longing for Africa into its pages,” tells the unflinching story of her childhood. Its candor and humor shines against the backdrop of domestic uncertainty and national violence. “As casually unadorned as rawhide, and just about as tough,” writes the Boston Globe. A best seller, it received the Book Sense Best Nonfiction Book of the Year, and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.

Fuller’s second nonfiction book, Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier (Penguin, 2004), picks up where Dogs left off, evoking place and character with the vividness that distinguishes her writing.

Her articles and book reviews have appeared in National Geographic, The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, Outside Magazine, Vogue and also widely elsewhere.