Kevin Brooks Research Paper

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S*** M*****an Mrs. H*** English II Honors Research Paper: Modern British Authors Author: Kevin Brooks Novel: MARTYN PIG Contemporary British author Kevin Brooks is an endowed writer who has fashioned unbelievable successful teen novels such as: MARTYN PIG, Naked, Killing God, and many more. Even though Kevin Brooks’ books seem ingenious not many publishing companies thought so. It was the novel of MARTYN PIG that changed everything. After being turned down by numerous publishers, Kevin Brooks sent his novel to The Chicken House, who launched at the opportunity to publish it Kevin Brooks was born in Exeter, Devon, and he studied in Birmingham and. “Kevin is the author of seven highly regarded novels including Martyn Pig, Lucas, Kissing the Rain, Candy and The Road of the Dead” (Scholastic, 1). He now lives in North Yorkshire. In Kevin Brooks’s career he has drifted through a number of jobs in his early years after college. He sieved ashes in a crematorium, was a zoo keeper, selling stamps at a post office, and also trying to become a musician. After he developed the patience to be a writer he gave all of these jobs up. Brooks also wrote poetry and read widely, especially enjoying the works of American detective novelists such as Raymond Chandler and Lawrence Block. Martyn Pig gave Brooks the break he needed Kevin Brooks has had many achievements due to his writing. He was awarded the following : “White Raven Award, Branford Boase Award, Sheffield Children's Book Award, Lancashire Children's Book Award, South Lanarkshire Book Award, and shortlisted for Carnegie medal, all 2003, and Salford Children's Book Award, 2004, all for Martyn Pig; Lucas was short-listed for Guardian Children's Book Award and Teenage Booktrust Prize, 2003” (Novokshonov, 1) .

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