1. Matt Haig was born on 3 July 1975 and is an English author and journalist.
12 Facts About Matt Haig
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Matt Haig has written both fiction and non-fiction books for children and adults, often in the speculative fiction genre.
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Matt Haig grew up in the Nottinghamshire town of Newark and later went on to study English and History at the University of Hull.
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Matt Haig's work of non-fiction, Reasons to Stay Alive, was a number one Sunday Times bestseller and was in the UK top 10 for 46 weeks.
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Matt Haig's novels are often dark and quirky takes on family life.
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Matt Haig's children's novel, Shadow Forest, is a fantasy that begins with the horrific death of the protagonists' parents.
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Matt Haig followed it with the sequel, Runaway Troll, in 2008.
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In 2017, Haig published How to Stop Time, a novel about a man who appears to be 40 but has, in fact, lived for more than 400 years and has met Shakespeare, Captain Cook and F Scott Fitzgerald.
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In 2020, Matt Haig released his novel The Midnight Library about a young woman who is unhappy with her choices in life.
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In 2021, Matt Haig appeared on Storybound, accompanied by an original score from Robert Wynia.
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Matt Haig has said that books are his one true faith, and the library is his church.
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Matt Haig has been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and autism.