About me
Alex George is a writer, bookseller, lawyer, and director of a literary festival. His previous novels include A Good American (Amy Einhorn Books, 2012), Setting Free The Kites (Putnam, 2017), and The Paris Hours (Flatiron, 2020). In addition to his novels, Alex’s writing has appeared in The Washington Post, Literary Hub, and numerous other publications. Alex read law at Oxford University and worked for eight years as a corporate lawyer in London and Paris. He moved to the United States in 2003. He owns an independent bookshop, Skylark Bookshop, in Columbia, Missouri. Skylark was named by USA Today as one of the country’s 30 coolest bookstores, and is featured in the book 150 Bookstores You Need to Visit Before you Die. In 2022, Alex was named Midwest Independent Bookseller of the Year. He is also the founder and director of the Unbound Book Festival, which held its ninth annual festival in April 2024. Past guests have included Michael Ondaatje, Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith, George Saunders, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Ross Gay, and Emily St. John Mandel. He presently divides his time between Boston and Missouri.