Author: Adam Mars-Jones
Alternate names: Mars-Jones, Adam, 1954-; Mars-Jones, Adam; Jones, Adam Mars-; Adam Mars Jones; Adam Mars-Jones (British writer)
Born: 26 October 1954
Bio: Adam Mars-Jones's first book of stories, ***Lantern Lecture***, was published in 1981 and won a Somerset Maugham Award. In 1983 and again in 1993 he was named one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists, despite not having produced a novel at the time. 
His Zen status as an acclaimed novelist without a novel was dented by the appearance of ***The Waters of Thirst***, and only suffered further with the appearance of ***Pilcrow***, described by Margaret Drabble as 'one of the most remarkable novels I have read in recent years'. 

He regularly reviews for the Observer and the LRB.