Alex Skutt (Alexander G. Skutt) is the author of North Rose 1940. Alex lived in North Rose until he completed second grade. He spent long summers at the Skutt cottage on LeRoy Island. Skutt then moved to Ithaca, NY, where he still lives. Alex’s grandfather, Orin Skutt, and father, A. Gray Skutt, owned and operated O. A. Skutt Co., an international dealer in red kidney beans. Alex, a life-long entrepreneur, has owned three bookstores, several video stores, a game store, and a book publishing company, McBooks Press. Jane Flood Skutt was his mother, and Marilyn Skutt Roberts is his sister. McBooks Press was thirty-eight years old when he sold it to Rowman & Littlefield on March 15, 2019. At that time, Skutt retired.

Alex is the co-author of The Boxing Register, The Official Record Book of the International Boxing Hall of Fame. That definitive boxing history appeared in five editions. Skutt was the first recipient of the Miriam A. Bass Award, presented by the Association of American Publishers for “creativity in independent publishing.”

Alex Skutt is a lifetime member of The Town of Rose Historical Society.