Adam Mars-Jones

Adam Mars-Jones is a novelist and critic. He was born in London on October 26, 1954 and studied at Westminster School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He is a regular contributor to The Guardian, Observer, Times Literary Supplement, and BBC Television's Newsnight Review.

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Novelist - October 26 - 1954 - Westminster School - The Guardian - Observer - Times Literary Supplement - BBC - Newsnight Review

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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', and was originally published in the CounterBlasts series in 1990.

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Somerset Maugham Award - Edmund White

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