Now playing · Tue Oct 6 · 6:00pm

Writers Speak: Douglas Stuart

Mahindra Humanities Center (Harvard) · Sever Hall · Room 113 · Harvard Square · Cambridge

Douglas Stuart, whose debut Shuggie Bain, about a boy growing up with an alcoholic mother in 1980s Glasgow, won the 2020 Booker Prize, is in conversation in Harvard's Writers Speak series. His second novel, Young Mungo, followed in 2022, and his third, John of John, in May 2026. Born in Glasgow, Stuart worked for two decades as a fashion designer in New York before turning to fiction.