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 in 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. However, some people with Asperger's Disorder disagree with his depiction. On the other hand, many people who have some sort of relationship to an autistic person will find many incidents in the book to be well described. 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.
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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Published Works

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Published Works

★ Gilbert's Gobstopper

★ Toni and the Tomato Soup

★ A Narrow Escape for Princess Sharon

★ Agent Z Meets the Masked Crusader

★ Titch Johnson, Almost World Champion

★ Agent Z Goes Wild

★ At Home

★ At Playgroup

★ In the Garden

★ On Holiday

★ The Real Porky Phillips

★ Agent Z and the Penguin from Mars

★ The Sea of Tranquility

★ Secret Agent Handbook

★ Agent Z and the Killer Bananas

★ Ocean Star Express

★ The Ice Bear's Cave

★ The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

★ The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea

★ A Spot of Bother

External links

★ Mark Haddon: The Virtual Tour

★ The official ''A Spot of Bother'' Website (UK)

★ Haddon on writing, from The Guardian

★ Mark Haddon: This year's big read (''The Independent'', 2004, January 22)

★ B is for bestseller (''The Observer'' 2004, April 11)

★ A brief biography

★ Mark Haddon's Website

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★ A Spot of Bother Website

★ Spot of Bother Reviews at Metacritic.com

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