http://www.costabookawards.com/images/online/Mark%20Haddon%20c.%20Claire%20McNamee.jpgMark Haddon, the author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, was born in Northampton, England in 1962. Mark Haddon attended Merton College in Oxford in 1981 for his B.A. In 1984, Haddon received his M.A. at Edinburgh University. Before writing novels, Haddon wrote and illustrated a variety of children’s books, and even some children television shows.
Mark Haddon’s debut novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, is about an autistic boy named Christopher. Before writing the novel, Haddon had worked with autistic children, yet admits to not researching much about autism while he wrote about his fictional character. However, Mark Haddon went on to win the McKitterick Prize and the Whitbread Prize for his debut novel.
Another book Mark Haddon wrote involved a main character who had a problem, which in this case was cancer. Besides that, Mark Haddon created a whole series of children’s books titled the “Agent Z” series. Another popular book that Haddon wrote was The Sea of Tranquility. In this story, he writes about the achievement of human’s first landing on the moon. Mark Haddon said that that was his personal fascination when he was a child. Mark Haddon is mostly known for being the author of various children’s books and novels. However, he even wrote a poetry book titled The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village.
“Works Cited”
Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2008. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2008. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC Harford County Public Library
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