Background
Mark Haddon was born on October 28, 1962, in Northampton, England, United Kingdom.
United Kingdom
Mark Haddon
United Kingdom
Mark Haddon
United Kingdom
Mark Haddon
United Kingdom
Mark Haddon
United Kingdom
Mark Haddon
United Kingdom
Mark Haddon
United Kingdom
Mark Haddon
United Kingdom
Mark at work
Merton College, Merton St, Oxford OX1 4JD, United Kingdom
Mark received a Bachelor of Arts from Merton College, Oxford in 1981.
Edinburgh University, Old College, South Bridge, Edinburgh EH8 9YL, United Kingdom
Mark received a Master of English Literature from Edinburgh University in 1984.
(Nine-year-old Jimbo gets into his fair share of scrapes, ...)
Nine-year-old Jimbo gets into his fair share of scrapes, but nothing can prepare him for the adventure he and his mate Charlie get into when they plant a walkie-talkie in the staff room and overhear two of their teachers speaking gobbledegook - or is it some secret language? The two boys decide to investigate and become caught up in dangerous events that are, quite literally, out of this world.
https://www.amazon.com/Gridzbi-Spudvetch-Mark-Haddon/dp/0744531721/?tag=2022091-20
1992
(Years ago, a little boy gazed at the moon, dizzy with the...)
Years ago, a little boy gazed at the moon, dizzy with the thought that he was looking at a world 200,000 miles away. As he read atlases and library books and kept clippings on astronauts orbiting the moon, he hoped and hoped that they would find a way to land there. And one extraordinary day they did, captured on his flickery TV, like giants bouncing in slow motion. When the boy fell asleep, he dreamed that he walked with them too.
https://www.amazon.com/Sea-Tranquility-Mark-Haddon-ebook/dp/B07MBL2HYY/?tag=2022091-20
1996
(When the children wake up one morning the air is silent a...)
When the children wake up one morning the air is silent and the room is full of soft blue light. "It's snowed!" says Alice. "It's like the North Pole!” It is the first big snowfall of the year and for Alice, Jess and Robin it means a day off school. They can't wait to to put on their scarves and hats, woolly gloves and wellingtons and go out to dig, play and explore. But before they go Dad gives them a warning: "You might just come across the Ice Bear's cave." And so begins an icy adventure in which somewhere hidden under the deepest snowdrifts by the barn, sleeping and dreaming of Arctic skies and frozen seas, is the ICE BEAR!
https://www.amazon.com/Ice-Bears-Cave-Mark-Haddon-ebook/dp/B00LZGJWJI/?tag=2022091-20
2002
(Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of...)
Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. Although gifted with a superbly logical brain, Christopher is autistic. Everyday interactions and admonishments have little meaning for him. Routine, order and predictability shelter him from the messy, wider world.
https://www.amazon.com/Curious-Incident-Dog-Night-Time-Awards/dp/0385512104/?tag=2022091-20
2003
(At sixty-one, George Hall is settling down to a comfortab...)
At sixty-one, George Hall is settling down to a comfortable retirement. When his tempestuous daughter, Katie, announces that she is getting married to the deeply inappropriate Ray, the Hall family is thrown into a tizzy. Unnoticed in the uproar, George discovers a sinister lesion on his hip, and quietly begins to lose his mind. As parents and children fall apart and come together, Haddon paints a disturbing yet amusing portrait of a dignified man trying to go insane politely.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000UZNRG4/?tag=2022091-20
2006
(From the moment that Jim and his best friend, Charlie, bu...)
From the moment that Jim and his best friend, Charlie, bug the staff room and overhear two of their teachers speaking to each other in a secret language, they know there's an adventure on its way. But what does "spudvetch" actually mean, and why do Mr. Kidd's eyes flicker with fluorescent blue light when Charlie says it to him? Perhaps Kidd and Pearce are bank robbers talking in code. Perhaps they're spies. Perhaps they are aliens.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0036S4C2U/?tag=2022091-20
2009
(Richard, a wealthy doctor, invites his estranged sister a...)
Richard, a wealthy doctor, invites his estranged sister and her family to join his family for a week at a vacation home in the English countryside. Against the backdrop of a strange family gathering, Haddon skillfully weaves together the stories of eight very different people forced into close quarters. The Red House is a symphony of long-held grudges, fading dreams and rising hopes, tightly guarded secrets and illicit desires, painting a portrait of contemporary family life that is at once bittersweet, comic, and deeply felt.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006NKNGJ8/?tag=2022091-20
2012
(The tales in Mark Haddon’s lyrical and uncompromising new...)
The tales in Mark Haddon’s lyrical and uncompromising new collection take many forms—Victorian adventure story, science fiction, morality tale, contemporary realism—but they all showcase his virtuoso gifts as a stylist and the deep well of empathy that made his three bestselling novels so compelling.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B013ZNK512/?tag=2022091-20
2016
(A newborn baby is the sole survivor of a terrifying plane...)
A newborn baby is the sole survivor of a terrifying plane crash. She is raised in wealthy isolation by an overprotective father. She knows nothing of the rumours about a beautiful young woman, hidden from the world. When a suitor visits, he understands far more than he should. Forced to run for his life, he escapes aboard The Porpoise, an assassin on his tail… So begins a wild adventure of a novel, damp with salt spray, blood and tears.
https://www.amazon.com/Porpoise-Mark-Haddon-ebook/dp/B07HMDQFJD/?tag=2022091-20
2019
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Mark Haddon was born on October 28, 1962, in Northampton, England, United Kingdom.
Mark received a Bachelor of Arts from Merton College, Oxford in 1981 and a Master of English Literature from Edinburgh University in 1984.
Upon completion of his studies, Mark became a caretaker for disabled people in Scotland. His experience of taking care of patients with multiple sclerosis and autism would later influence his literary writing. In addition to that, he did a variety of jobs, including at a theater box office, mailing office and as a cartoonist and illustrator. His works were illustrated in numerous periodicals, such as New Statesman, The Spectator, Private Eye, the Sunday Telegraph and The Guardian, and in a cartoon strip, “Men - A User’s Guide”.
Subsequently, Haddon relocated to Boston, Massachusetts. A year later he moved back to England where he took up his passion for abstract painting and sold his art. Afterwards, he began writing as a children’s author. Before producing any major work, he illustrated children’s books and wrote for popular television shows for kids. He published his first children’s book, titled Gilbert’s Gobstopper, in 1987. It was followed by several books which he self-illustrated.
In 1993, Haddon wrote the first book in his famous comical children’s book series, Agent Z Meets the Masked Crusader. The Agent Z series is set in the present day fictional city of Britain. Agent Z is not an actual character in the series but secret identity adopted by three schoolboys when they play pranks on unsuspecting and bored people. Ben, Barney and Jenks call themselves Crane Grove Crew and their mission is to fight boredom by unleashing Agent Z. The comical series contains four books and one of the titles, Agent Z and the Penguin from Mars, has been adapted into Children’s BBC sitcom, in 1996.
Haddon wrote his first adult mystery, entitled The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, published in 2003. It is titled after a quote from Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes story, “Silver Blaze”. The story is narrated from the first-person perspective of a 15-year-old Christopher John Francis Boone. He suffers from high-functioning autism, something Haddon had witnessed first-hand while caretaking patients. According to the author, the focus of the book is not the Asperger’s syndrome itself but the difference it creates in the sufferer’s life. The novel alludes to the refreshing outlook of a person with this syndrome and how their every experience has a surprising and revealing quality. Haddon’s second adult novel, A Spot of Bother, appeared in 2006. After that, he wrote three more novels for adults, most recent of which, The Porpoise, came out in 2019.
Additionally, he wrote screenplay for Raymond Briggs’s story Fungus the Bogeyman, which aired on BBC in 2004. Three years later, he penned the drama Coming Down the Mountain for the same channel. His other contributions to television shows for children include Microsoap and Starstreet. In 2005, he published a poetry collection, entitled The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea.
Mark Haddon also teaches creative writing for the Arvon Foundation and Oxford University.
(Nine-year-old Jimbo gets into his fair share of scrapes, ...)
1992(The tales in Mark Haddon’s lyrical and uncompromising new...)
2016(From the moment that Jim and his best friend, Charlie, bu...)
2009(Richard, a wealthy doctor, invites his estranged sister a...)
2012(Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of...)
2003(Years ago, a little boy gazed at the moon, dizzy with the...)
1996(When the children wake up one morning the air is silent a...)
2002(At sixty-one, George Hall is settling down to a comfortab...)
2006(A newborn baby is the sole survivor of a terrifying plane...)
2019Mark married Sos Eltis. They have two sons.