Marcel Theroux

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Marcel Theroux
Theroux in 2017
Born	(1968-06-13) 13 June 1968 (age 55) Kampala, Uganda
Occupation	Novelist, television presenter
Education	Westminster School
Alma mater	Clare College, Cambridge Yale University
Years active	2002–present
Children	2
Parents	Paul Theroux (father)
Relatives	Louis Theroux (brother) Alexander Theroux (paternal uncle) Peter Theroux (paternal uncle) Justin Theroux (paternal first cousin)
Website
marceltheroux.com

Marcel Raymond Theroux (born 13 June 1968) is a British-American novelist and broadcaster. He wrote A 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 elder son of the American travel writer and novelist Paul Theroux and his then-wife Anne Castle.^[1] His younger brother, Louis Theroux, is a journalist, documentarian, and television presenter.