Adam Mars-Jones
Adam Mars-Jones (born 26 October 1954) is a British novelist and critic.
Mars-Jones was born in London, to parents William Mars-Jones, the Welsh High Court judge and President of the London Welsh Trust, and Sheila (née Cobon).[1][2] Mars-Jones studied at Westminster School, and read Classics at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He is a regular contributor to The Guardian, The Observer, The Times Literary Supplement, and BBC Television's Newsnight Review.
His first collection of stories, Lantern Lecture (1981), won a Somerset Maugham Award. Other works include Monopolies of Loss (1992) and The Darker Proof: Stories from a Crisis (1987), which was co-written with Edmund White. His first novel, The Waters of Thirst, was published in 1993. Blind Bitter Happiness (1997), a collection of essays, includes 'Venus Envy', which was originally published in the CounterBlasts series in 1990. Pilcrow (2008) was his second novel, followed by Cedilla in 2011. These two works form the first two parts of a projected trilogy.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2007.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ Morton, James (25 January 1999). "Obituary Sir William Mars-Jones". The Independent (UK). http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-sir-william-marsjones-1076161.html. Retrieved 4 February 2011.
- ^ "Our Former Presidents: London Welsh Centre". London Welsh Centre website. London Welsh Centre. 2010. http://www.londonwelsh.org/archives/1796. Retrieved 4 February 2011.
- ^ "Royal Society of Literature All Fellows". Royal Society of Literature. http://www.rslit.org/content/fellows. Retrieved 10 August 2010.
[edit] External links
- Featured in the opening literary event of the Pride London Festival Fortnight on 22 June 2009 at Foyles bookshop.
- Adam Mars-Jones at Contemporary Writers
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