ABOUT MARK HADDON
Famous for his Guardian Prize, Whitbread Award, and Commonwealth Writers Prize-winning novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003), he is also notable for his numerous works of young adult fiction, which include Agent Z and the Penguin from Mars (1995) and The Real Porky Phillips (1994).
After graduating from Merton College, Oxford, with a degree in English, he published his debut children's work, Gilbert's Gobstopper.
He published his first poetry collection -- The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea -- in 2005.
He was raised in Northampton and Rutland, England. His marriage to English teacher Sos Eltis resulted in two sons.
He penned the BBC adaptation of author Raymond Briggs ' work Fungus the Bogeyman.
