Mark Haddon






Mark Haddon

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born
September 26, 1962

gender
male

place of birth
Northampton, The United Kingdom

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Children's Books, Literature & Fiction


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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 ...more




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avg rating: 3.73 | 106,655 ratings | 11,746 reviews | 42 distinct works | 79 fans
The Curious Incident of the Do... The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
by Mark Haddon
avg rating 3.74 — 93,593 ratings — published 2003
62 editions
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A Spot of Bother A Spot of Bother
by Mark Haddon
avg rating 3.43 — 4,720 ratings — published 2006
26 editions
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The Talking Horse and the Sad... The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea: Poems
by Mark Haddon
avg rating 3.41 — 75 ratings — published 2005
4 editions
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The Sea of Tranquility The Sea of Tranquility
by Mark Haddon, Christian Birmingham (Illustrator)
avg rating 4.22 — 9 ratings — published 1996
5 editions
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Footprints on the Moon Footprints on the Moon
by Mark Haddon, Christian Birmingham (Illustrator)
avg rating 5.00 — 4 ratings — published 2009
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Agent Z and the Penguin from M... Agent Z and the Penguin from Mars
by Mark Haddon
avg rating 4.00 — 4 ratings — published 1995
3 editions
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Secret Agent Handbook Secret Agent Handbook (Puzzle Books)
by Mark Haddon
avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published 1999
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Toni and the Tomato Soup Toni and the Tomato Soup
by Mark Haddon
avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published 1989
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Agent Z and the Killer Bananas Agent Z and the Killer Bananas
by Mark Haddon
avg rating 5.00 — 2 ratings — published 2001
2 editions
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Agent Z and the Masked Crusade... Agent Z and the Masked Crusader
by Mark Haddon
avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published 1996
2 editions
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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)
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"...people who believe in God think God has put human beings on earth because they think human beings are the best animal, but human beings are just an animal and they will evolve into another animal, and that animal will be cleverer and it will put human beings into a zoo, like we put chimpanzees and gorillas into a zoo. Or human beings will all catch a disease and die out or they will make too much pollution and kill themselves, and then there will only be insects in the world and they will be the best animal."
Mark Haddon (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time)
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"All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I'm not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are."
Mark Haddon (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time)
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