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Alex Flynn Author

Alex Flynn is the pseudonym for the writing team of Stuart Sherman and Elisabeth Donnelly. They met at a clandestine book club in Boston, where they broke into a fortified tower in order to discuss literature. They like garrulous Irish writers, Pushing Daisies, Axe Cop, and anything involving The Tick. Their secret lair is currently in a hollowed-out volcano in Brooklyn. In addition to cowriting The Misshapes, Donnelly is a cultural journalist who has written for The New York Times Magazine, the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, The Paris Review Daily, GQ, and many others. Sherman is a bioethicist, health policy analyst, and a former contestant on the game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?