

My daughter has no facility with numbers or memory but she does with space. She knows this and vaguely resents it somewhat but gets on with things as best she can.Įach case of autism is probably unique. No one knows why and the condition has never varied in its intensity.

My 34 year old daughter is severely autistic, and has been since she was seven. Sos Eltis, a Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford, and their two young sons.

Mark Haddon lives in Oxford with his wife Dr. His atheism might be inferred from The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time in which the main character declares that those who believe in God are stupid. In an interview with The Observer, Haddon said "I am atheist in a very religious mould". He describes himself as a 'hard-line atheist'. Haddon is a vegetarian, and enjoys vegetarian cookery. He also wrote the 2007 BBC television drama Coming Down the Mountain. He also wrote the screenplay for the BBC television adaptation of Raymond Briggs's story Fungus the Bogeyman, screened on BBC1 in 2004. Mark Haddon is also known for his series of Agent Z books, one of which, Agent Z and the Penguin from Mars, was made into a 1996 Children's BBC sitcom. His second adult-novel, A Spot of Bother, was published in September 2006. In an interview at, Haddon claimed that this was the first book that he wrote intentionally for an adult audience he was surprised when his publisher suggested marketing it to both adult and child audiences. Haddon's knowledge of Aspergers syndrome, a type of autism, comes from his work with autistic people as a young man. 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. He was educated at Uppingham School and Merton College, Oxford, where he studied English.

Mark Haddon is a British novelist and poet, best known for his 2003 novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time.
