Mark Haddon

Mark Haddon (he/him) was born in Northampton, UK, in 1962. Haddon’s first book of poetry, The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea, was published by Picador in 2005. His first book for children, Gilbert's Gobstopper (Hamilton, first edition), was published in 1987 and followed by other books and picture books for children, many of which he illustrated. Other works include the novels Boom! (David Fickling Books, 2009), The Red House (Vintage, 2012), The Pier Falls (Vintage, 2016), and The Porpoise (Vintage, 2019). Mark Haddon teaches creative writing for the Arvon Foundation and at Oxford University. (Source)