Mark Haddon is a writer and illustrator of numerous award-winning children's books and television screenplays. As a young man, Haddon worked with autistic individuals. He teaches creative writing for the Arvon Foundation and lives in Oxford, England.
"Gloriously eccentric and wonderfully intelligent." --The Boston Globe "Moving. . . . Think of The Sound and the Fury crossed with The Catcher in the Rye and one of Oliver Sacks's real-life stories." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "This is an amazing novel. An amazing book." --The Dallas Morning News "A superb achievement. He is a wise and bleakly funny writer with rare gifts of empathy." --Ian McEwan, author of Atonement "Brilliant. . . . Delightful. . . . Very moving, very plausible--and very funny." --Oliver Sacks "Superb. . . . Bits of wisdom fairly leap off the page." --Newsday "Disorienting and reorienting the reader to devastating effect. . . . As suspenseful and harrowing as anything in Conan Doyle." --Jay McInerney, The New York Times Book Review "Extraordinarily moving, often blackly funny. . . . It is hard to think of anyone who would not be moved and delighted by this book." --Financial Times, London "Both clever and observant." --The Washington Post "Full of whimsical surprises and tender humor." --People "[Haddon] illuminates a core of suffering through the narrowly focused insights of a boy who hasn't the words to describe emotional pain." --New York Daily News "Outstanding. . . . A stunningly good read." --The Independent "Engrossing . . . flawlessly imagined and deeply affecting." --Time Out New York "A remarkable book from a writer with very special talent." --Fort Worth Star-Telegram "The Curious Incident is the rare book that repays reading twice in quick succession." --Detroit Free Press "Heart-in-the-mouth stuff, terrifying and moving. Haddon is to be congratulated for imagining a new kind of hero." --The Daily Telegraph "This original and affecting novel is a triumph of empathy." --The New Yorker "Haddon's book illuminates the way one mind works so precisely, so humanely, that it reads like both an acutely observed case study and an artful exploration of a different 'mystery' the thoughts and feeling we share even with those very different from us." --Entertainment Weekly "Mark Haddon's portrayal of an emotionally disassociated mind is a superb achievement. He is a wise and bleakly funny writer with rare gifts of empathy." --Ian McEwan, author of Atonement "A murder mystery, a road atlas, a postmodern canvas of modern sensory overload, a coming-of-age journal and lastly a really affecting look at the grainy inconsistency of parental and romantic love and its failures. . . . In this striking first novel, Mark Haddon is both clever and observant, and the effect is vastly affecting." --The Washington Post "Haddon's gentle humor reminds us that facts don't add up to a life, that we understand ourselves only through metaphor." --Chicago Tribune "Beautifully written. . . . Heart-in-the-mouth stuff, terrifying and moving. Haddon is to be congratulated for imagining a new kind of hero, for the humbling instruction this warm and often funny novel offers and for showing that the best lives are lived where difference is cherished." --The Daily Telegraph "A detective story with a difference. . . . [Haddon] has given his unlikely hero a convincing voice-and the detective novel an interesting twist." --The Economist "Think Huck Finn, The Catcher in the Rye, or the early chapters of David Copperfield." --Houston Chronicle "A tale full of cheeky surprises and tender humor. . . . A touching evolution." --Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "Funny, sad and totally convincing." --Time "More so than precursors like The Sound and the Fury and Flowers for Algernon, The Curious Incident is a radical experiment in empathy." --The Village Voice "One of the strangest and most convincing characters in recent fiction." --Slate "I have never read anything quite like Mark Haddon's funny and agonizingly honest book, or encountered a narrator more vivid and memorable. I advise you to buy two copies; you won't want to lend yours out." --Arthur Golden, author of Memoirs of a Geisha "At once funny and achingly sad, this thought-provoking debut may leave us wondering if our worn coping skills are really any better than Christopher's." --The News and Observer "Filled with humor and pain, [The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time] verges on profundity." --San Jose Mercury News "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time brims with imagination, empathy, and vision-plus it's a lot of fun to read." --Myla Goldberg, author of Bee Season