Marcel Theroux

Novelist

Birthday June 13, 1968

Birth Sign Gemini

Birthplace Uganda

Age 55 years old

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Numerology: 7

About

British author and broadcaster who is best known for his 2001 book The Confessions of Mycroft Holmes: A Paper Chase.

Before Fame

He was born in Uganda because his father was teaching at Makerere University but he was raised in Wandsworth, London.

Trivia

His book The Confessions of Mycroft Holmes: A Paper Chase won the Somerset Maugham Award in 2002.

Family Life

His father Paul was a travel writing and novelist and his younger brother Louis is a journalist.

Associated With

He won the Somerset Maugham Award four years before Zadie Smith did.