Mark Haddon

Mark Haddon is a novelist and poet, best known for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. He was born on September 26,1962 in Northampton and educated at Uppingham School and Merton College, Oxford, where he studied English.

In 2003, Haddon won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and Commonwealth Writers' Prize Overall Best First Book for his novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, a book which is written from the perspective of a boy with Asperger's Disorder. Haddon's knowledge of autism comes from working with autistic people as a young man.^{[citation needed]} According to an interview with the author at Powells.com, this was the first book that Haddon wrote intentionally for an adult audience; he was surprised when his publisher suggested marketing it to both adult and child audiences. His second adult-novel, A Spot of Bother, was published in September 2006.

Mark Haddon is also known for his series of Agent Z books, one of which, Agent Z and the Penguin from Mars, was made into a 1996 Children's BBC sitcom. He also wrote the screenplay for the BBC television adaptation of Raymond Briggs's story Fungus the Bogeyman, screened on BBC1 in 2004. He also wrote the 2007 BBC television drama Coming Down the Mountain.

Haddon is a vegetarian, and enjoys vegetarian cookery. He describes himself as a 'hard-line atheist'[1]. In an interview published in The Observer on Sunday 2004, April 11 Haddon said "I am atheist in a very religious mold".

Mark Haddon lives in Oxford and is married to Dr. Sos Eltis, a Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford.

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