We will be welcoming Adam Mars-Jones as our March 2022 speaker.
Adam Mars-Jones was born in London, attended Westminster School and read Classics at Trinity Hall , Cambridge. He is a novelist and cultural critic. Mars-Jones is a regular contributor to The Guardian, The Observer, The Times Literary Supplement, and the London Review of Books.
He taught Creative Writing at the University of Virginia and was the film critic for The Independent between 1986 and 1997 and for The Times between 1998 and 2000.
He was selected by Granta as one of its 20 ‘Best of British Young Novelists’ in both 1983 and 1993. His fiction includes the collection of short stories, Lantern Lecture (1981), his first book a winner of the Somerset Maugham Award; Monopolies of Loss (1992); and The Darker Proof: Stories from a Crisis (1987), co-written with Edmund White. Adam Mars-Jones’ first novel, The Waters of Thirst, was published in 1993. Since then he has published another two novels Pilcrow (2008) and Cedilla (2011), which form the first two parts of a projected trilogy.
In 2015 he published the autobiographic Kid Gloves: A Voyage Round My Father about his relationship with his father.
His most recent novel, Box Hill: a Story of Low Self-Esteem was Spectator Book of the Year in 2020.
Adam Mars-Jones was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2007 and lives in London.