Dr Adam Baron
Associate Professor
Contact
- Email: a.baron@kingston.ac.uk
- Location: Penrhyn Road
- Faculty: Kingston School of Art
- School: School of Arts, Culture and Communication
- Department: Department of Humanities
About
I am a novelist and an Associate Professor in Creative Writing.
I have published seven novels. My first four were crime novels (Macmillan). My next was the literary novel, Blackheath (Myriad Editions, 2016). 'Fresh, honest, very funny'. Rachel Cusk.
I have a six book contract with HarperCollins to write novels for younger readers. Boy Underwater (2018) was nominated for the Carnegie Medal and Branford Boarse awards. To date it has won The Stockport Schools Book Prize and the Oxfordshire Schools Book prize. It was Waterstones Book of the Month and one of The Guardian Books of the Year 2018. You Won't Believe This came out in July 2019. My novels have been widely translated, and dramatised for BBC Radio 4. I hold a Phd in Creative Writing from Brunel University.
Areas of specialism
- Literary fiction
- Children's fiction
- Crime fiction
Qualifications
- PhD
Industry links
I am a member of English PEN.
Publications
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Number of items: 11.
Article
Baron, Adam (2015) Daffs & other poems. 3:AM Magazine,
Book
Baron, Adam (2018) Boy underwater. HarperCollins Children's Books. 256p. ISBN 9780008267018
Baron, Adam (2016) Blackheath. Brighton, U.K. : Myriad Editions. 352p. ISBN 9781908434906
Baron, Adam (2004) It was you. London, UK : Macmillan. 389p. ISBN 1405021055
Baron, Adam (2003) Superjack. London, UK : Picador. 384p. ISBN 0330487418
Baron, Adam (2000) Hold back the night. London, U.K. : Pan Macmillan. 359p. ISBN 9780330391177
Book Section
Baron, Adam (2015) I love to slide my daughters' feet into their shoes. In: Brivati, Brian , Munro, Jenny and Scamell-Katz, Siemon, (eds.) A mile in their shoes. London, U.K. : The Knitting Circle. pp. 38-38. ISBN 9781943843084
Baron, Adam (2012) Permission, potency and protection in the creative writing workshop. In: Perry, Paul, (ed.) Beyond the workshop. Kingston upon Thames, U.K. : Kingston University Press. pp. 173-178. ISBN 9781899999521
Conference or Workshop Item
Baron, Adam (2018) Forgetting and the novel. In: Forgetting, Kingston Writers' Centre; 25 Jan 2018, Kingston Upon Thames, U.K..
Performance/Live Event
Baron, Adam (2016) Adam Baron on Can Dundar and Erdem Gul. English PEN Modern Literature Festival. 7 min.
Sound Recording
Baron, Adam and Lucie, Doug [Author of screenplay, etc.] (2005) Hold back the night. (radio broadcast). London, U.K. : British Broadcasting Corporation.