“The Porpoise,” the new novel by Mark Haddon, opens with a scene of spectacular violence. A man, flying a friend of a friend’s pregnant wife home to Winchester in his small plane, loses his bearings ...

Mark Haddon, the best-selling author of “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,” was an anxious and depressed child. He was afraid of sharks and airplanes, getting sucked into escalators ...

A critic once described Mark Haddon’s third novel, “The Red House,” as Virginia Woolf with cellphones. The comparison delighted the 53-year-old author, who calls Woolf’s “To the Lighthouse” his ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 20 years after its release, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time continues to resonate with readers around ...

It's midnight, and an autistic 15-year-old boy is sitting on the lawn, holding his neighbor's dead dog, covered with blood. The neighbor runs out screaming, police arrive, the boy hits a policeman and ...

In this week's edition of Endnotes, we take a look at Mark Haddon's Leaving Home, an illustrated memoir. Here's how the book came together: “This is a book about many things—forests, balconies, the ...

More than 20 years after its release, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time continues to resonate with readers around the world. The internationally bestselling novel by Mark Haddon was ...