Kevin Brooks (writer)

Kevin M. Brooks (b. March 30, 1959) is an English author best known for his novels Lucas (winner of the North East Book Award 2004) and Martyn Pig (winner of the Branford Boase Award 2003).

Biography

Kevin Brooks was born in 1959 and grew up in Exeter, Devon, England. He studied Psychology and Philosophy at Birmingham, Aston University in 1980 and Cultural Studies in London in 1983. Kevin Brooks has been in a variety of jobs including: musician, gasoline station attendant, crematorium handyman, civil service clerk, hot dog vendor at the London Zoo, post office clerk, and railway ticket office clerk.

Kevin Brooks's writing career started with the publication of Martyn Pig in 2002 through The Chicken House which won the Branford Boase Award 2003 and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. He also wrote Lucas (2002) which was shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and Booktrust Teenage Prize in 2003 also winning the North East Book Award in 2004.

In 2004 he published Kissing the Rain and Bloodline and I See You, Baby and Candy in 2005. In 2006 he published 3 books including: Johnny Delgado Series - Like Father, Like Son and Private Detective as well as The Road of the Dead; a standalone novel. In February 2008 he published the standalone book Black Rabbit Summer

Bibliography

Johnny Delgado Series

* "Like Father, Like Son" (2006)
* "Private Detective" (2006)

Standalone novels

* "Lucas" (2002)
* "Martyn Pig" (2002)
* "Kissing the Rain" (2004)
* "Bloodline (Kevin Brooks novel)|Bloodline" (2004)
* "I See You, Baby" (2005)
* "Candy" (2005) (Not to be confused with Candy, a novel by Maxwell Kenton)
* "The Road of the Dead" (2006)
* "Being" (2007)
* "Black Rabbit Summer" (2008)

External links

* [http://www.myspace.com/kevinbrooksauthor Kevin Brooks' Official Myspace page]
* [http://www.doublecluck.com/authordetails.php?aname=Brooks,%20Kevin&btype=fiction11 The Chicken House entry for Kevin Brooks]
* [http://www.answers.com/topic/kevin-m-brooks Answers.com entry for Kevin Brooks]
* [http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/b/kevin-brooks/ Fantasticfiction entry for Kevin Brooks]