“From
a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that
outer darkness.” – Mark Haddon
Born in England on
this date in 1962, Haddon is best known for his amazing book and play The
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – a story of a 15-year-old
boy with Asperger’s syndrome – for which he won the Whitbread Award, Guardian
Prize, and a Commonwealth Writers Prize. 
The author of more than 20 books, he also has
written many short stories and said it was his “late” discovery of the joy of
reading that took him off a path toward mathematics and onto one in the writing
world. “When I was 13 or 14, I started devouring novels; literature
took quite a while to take me over, but it caught up just in time to save me
from becoming a mathematician.”
Haddon
likes to use a combination of humor, sensitivity and adventure in his writing
and advises beginning writers to always employ imagination in developing their
works.
“Use your imagination,” he said, “and
you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if
you examine them with enough care.”
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