Question: Who wrote the book that The Universe Versus Alex Woods has been compared to?
Context: Simon M. Woods is a British entrepreneur and former record producer.  Woods was the manager for the band UB40 after having seen them play at a pub, and turned down two offers on their behalf to release under 2 Tone Records, opting to release "Food For Thought" through another label, Graduate, before setting up Dep International that recorded and released UB40 internationally with enormous success.  Woods left the band in 1983 and started his own label, to which he signed Swans Way.  Woods ran his own marketing company before being hired on by the Birmingham School of Acting, and founded the European Drama Network, a film production company which makes movies based on classic plays.  Their first movie was "The Mandrake Root"; it was directed by Malachi Bogdanov and is based on a comedy written in 1512 by Niccolò Machiavelli.  In a co-production with Warwick Business School he wrote and directed "The Inferno Show presents Machiavelli The Prince of Comedy", a short comedy to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the writing of "The Prince".  Currently he is developing a movie, "From Ithaca With Love The Odyssey", a modern version of Homer's "The Odyssey" set in the modern day but made in Ancient Greek and Latin, loosely based on a play of the same name he produced in 2006 with director Malachi Bogdanov as part of the New Generation Arts Festival. The Universe Versus Alex Woods (2013) is the debut novel by Gavin Extence.  The book was described by Emma John in "The Guardian" as being "the everyday tale of a teenage science nerd hit by a meteorite who strikes up a friendship with a pot-smoking Vietnam veteran.  And may or may not be involved in his death."  The book has been compared to "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time", as well as the writing of Kurt Vonnegut.  The book won the Waterstones Eleven award, and was nominated for the National Book Awards. Alex Woods (born October 7, 1982 in Houston, Texas) is an American soccer player, currently not on a club. Cross Fire is the 17th book of James Patterson's Alex Cross series.  In the novel, Kyle Craig has come back for one final scare to finally kill Alex Cross, but Alex has a special day ahead of him, one that concerns Bree and his relationship.  The novel was released in hardcover, paperback, and audio book on November 15, 2010.  It was preceded by "I, Alex Cross" and was followed by "Kill Alex Cross".  The book sees Alex getting married to Bree after proposing to her in the previous book; the book also sees the final appearance of Kyle Craig, who dies by shooting an oxygen tank, killing him and two cops before he can be sent to prison again by Alex. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a 2003 mystery novel by British writer Mark Haddon.  Its title quotes the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes in Arthur Conan Doyle's 1892 short story "Silver Blaze".  Haddon and "The Curious Incident" won the Whitbread Book Awards for Best Novel and Book of the Year, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book, and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize.  Unusually, it was published simultaneously in separate editions for adults and children. "Chuck Versus the Seduction Impossible" is the fourteenth episode of the fourth season of "Chuck".  It originally aired on February 7, 2011.  This episode followed the intended season finale, "Chuck Versus the Push Mix", making it the first of an additional eleven episodes ordered.  Chuck Bartowski, Sarah Walker, and John Casey are sent to Morocco to rescue old friend Roan Montgomery (John Larroquette), while Morgan Grimes meets Alex Hugh's (Mekenna Melvin) mother (Clare Carey) and Mary Elizabeth Bartowski (Linda Hamilton) tries to reconnect with her family. Alcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia is a juvenile fiction novel by Brandon Sanderson, published in October 2009 by Scholastic Press.  It is the third book in the Alcatraz Series following "Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians" in 2007 and "Alcatraz Versus the Scrivener's Bones" in 2008. Self-Titled Long-Playing Debut Album is the first album released by +/-.  It was written, performed and recorded almost entirely by former Versus guitarist James Baluyut, with his Versus bandmate Patrick Ramos playing additional drums on the album.  Baluyut used the recording of the album to experiment with techniques such as 5-4 time and sampling.  Upon release the album was acclaimed for its fusion of indie-rock song structures with electronica production techniques, and it was compared favourably to work by The Microphones and The Notwist.  The track "All I do" was later featured in the soundtrack for the film Wicker Park. In asset pricing and portfolio management the Fama–French three-factor model is a model designed by Eugene Fama and Kenneth French to describe stock returns.  Fama and French were professors at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where Fama still resides.  The three factors are (1) market risk, (2) the outperformance of small versus big companies, and (3) the outperformance of high book/market versus small book/market companies.  However, the size and book/market ratio themselves are not in the model.  For this reason, there is academic debate about the meaning of the last two factors. Gavin Extence (born 1982) is an English writer.  Extence won the Waterstones 11 literary prize for his first book "The Universe Versus Alex Woods" (2013).  He has a PhD in Film studies, is married, has a daughter and is also a keen chess player.
Answer: Mark Haddon