Marcel Theroux
| Marcel Theroux | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Marcel Raymond Theroux 13 June 1968 Kampala, Uganda |
| Residence | Tooting, London, United Kingdom |
| Education | Westminster School |
| Alma mater |
Clare College, Cambridge Yale University |
| Occupation | Novelist, Television Presenter |
| Years active | 2002~present |
| Children | 2 |
| Parent(s) | Paul Theroux, Anne Castle |
| Relatives |
Louis Theroux (brother) Alexander Theroux (uncle) Justin Theroux (cousin) |
| Website | www |
Marcel Raymond Theroux (born 13 June 1968) is a British novelist and broadcaster. He wrote The Stranger in The Earth and The Confessions of Mycroft Holmes: a paper chase, for which he won the Somerset Maugham Award in 2002. His third novel, A Blow to the Heart, was published by Faber in 2006. His fourth, Far North, was published in June 2009. His fifth, Strange Bodies, was published in May 2013. He has also worked in television news in New York City and in Boston.
He is the middle son of the American travel writer and novelist Paul Theroux and his then-wife Anne Castle. His younger brother, Louis Theroux, is a journalist, documentarian, and television presenter.
Marcel Theroux was born in 1968 in Kampala, Uganda, where his American-born father Paul Theroux was teaching at Makerere University. His mother is Anne Castle, an English woman. The family spent the next two years in Singapore, where his father taught at the National University of Singapore. After their return to England, Theroux was brought up in Wandsworth, London. After attending a state primary school, he boarded at Westminster School where his best friend was Nick Clegg. He went on to study English Literature at Clare College, Cambridge. He won a fellowship to study International Relations with a specialization in Soviet and East European Studies at Yale University.
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