Adam Mars-Jones is a writer and critic.

Adam was born in London in 1954. Educated at Westminster School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, he studied and then taught Creative Writing at the University of Virginia.

Adam appears as a literary critic in The Observer and has written film criticism for The Times and The Independent.

His own fiction includes and the Lantern Lecture, which won the Somerset Maugham Award. The Darker Proof: Stories from a Crisis (co-written with Edmund White), and Monopolies of Loss both contain short stories concerned with the effect of HIV on real people. He was one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists in 1983 and again in 1993.

His non-fiction work includes Blind Bitter Happiness, a collection of essays. He was also the editor of Mae West is Dead, a collection of gay and lesbian fiction from the early eighties.

He has also written novels, the first, The Water of Thirst, is a witty reflection on a relationship under strain while the narrator is waiting for a kidney transplant. He is also the author of twin novellas Hypo Vanilla. His new novel Pilcrow, about a disabled gay man growing up in the in 1950s, is published in April 2008 by Faber & Faber