Adam Mars-Jones

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) is his second novel.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2007.[3]

References

  1. ^ 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. 
  2. ^ "Our Former Presidents: London Welsh Centre". London Welsh Centre website. London Welsh Centre. 2010. http://www.londonwelsh.org/archives/1796. Retrieved 4 February 2011. 
  3. ^ "Royal Society of Literature All Fellows". Royal Society of Literature. http://www.rslit.org/content/fellows. Retrieved 10 August 2010. 

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