Adam Mars Jones

Adam Mars Jones (1954-now)

Adam Mars-Jones (born 26 October 1954) is a British novelist and critic. He was born in London, 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.

F St Mars's Books:

[A Wild Education | Another Pawn Of Fate | The Way Of The Wild]

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