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Alex Shearer
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| Born | (1949-06-25) 25 June 1949 (age 75) Scotland |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | Scottish |
| Citizenship | UK |
| Genre | Children's picture books Scripts |
Alex Shearer (born 25 June 1949) is a British novelist and scriptwriter. He was born in Wick, in the north of Scotland. Alex Shearer sold his first TV script at the age of 29, after a varied career of some 30 odd jobs.
He wrote for television, film, theatre and radio (including plays and short stories for BBC Radio 4)[1] for 14 years, and then devoted himself to becoming a novelist.
His 2003 novel The Speed of the Dark was shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize.[2] The Greatest Store in the World was adapted into a television film by the BBC. His novel Bootleg was adapted for a television series by the BBC, and later adapted into manga and anime under its Japanese title Chocolate Underground.[3]
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