Mark Haddon





Mark Haddon

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in Northampton, The United Kingdom
September 26, 1962

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Mark Haddon is a British novelist and poet, best known for his 2003 novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. He was educated at Uppingham School and Merton College, Oxford, where he studied English.

In 2003, Haddon won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and in 2004, the 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 Aspergers syndrome. Haddon's knowledge of Aspergers syndrome, a type of autism, comes from his work with autistic people as a young man.[1] In an interview at Powells.com, Haddon claimed that this was the first book that he wrote intentionally for an adult audience; he was surprised wh...more


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i doubt the evening standard will give me a right of reply so i’m doing it myself…

i was at the west end opening of curious at the apollo theatre on shafestbury avenue on 12th march. it was an astonishing evening in so many ways. certainly the most uplifting night i have ever spent in the theatre.

i was sitting in the circle. will gompertz, the bbc arts editor, was sitting 3 seats away. we’d met...

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Average rating: 3.77 · 449,710 ratings · 24,998 reviews · 27 distinct works · Similar authors
The Curious Incident of the...
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 425,846 ratings — published 2003 — 126 editions
A Spot of Bother
3.45 of 5 stars 3.45 avg rating — 16,950 ratings — published 2006 — 62 editions
The Red House
2.87 of 5 stars 2.87 avg rating — 4,997 ratings — published 2012 — 25 editions
Boom!
3.39 of 5 stars 3.39 avg rating — 1,220 ratings — published 2009 — 29 editions
The Talking Horse and the S...
3.4 of 5 stars 3.40 avg rating — 238 ratings — published 2006 — 6 editions
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3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 1996 — 5 editions
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4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions
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4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2001
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June 2012, Mark Haddon
"A family coalesces for a tense holiday in the English countryside in The Red House, the latest by the acclaimed author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time." ...More

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“Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.”
Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

“On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.”
Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

“Sometimes we get sad about things and we don't like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don't know why we are sad, so we say we aren't sad but we really are.”
Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

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