Neil Cross

Neil Claude Gadd was born in Bristol on 9 February 1969, to unhappily married parents, Alan and Edna (née Noyes) Gadd. He was the youngest of their four children.^[1] His mother ran away when he was five, returned two years later and took him to Edinburgh with Derek Cross, a White South African who was to become his stepfather and whose surname he would adopt.^[2]

Neil Cross graduated from the University of Leeds in 1994 with a degree in English and Theology, and received his master's degree in English in the year following.^[3] His initial career was solely as a novelist, beginning with Mr In-Between, which was published in 1998 (and adapted into a film in 2001).^{[citation needed]}

His novel, Always the Sun, which was long-listed for the Booker Prize,^[4] Burial and Captured; and has written a memoir Heartland, which was short-listed for the PEN/Ackerley Prize for literary autobiography of excellence. His most recent novel, Luther: The Calling, was published in 2011. In 2019 it was announced he was adapting Burial into what became the ITV series The Sister.^[5]

In 2011, Cross was included in Variety magazine's list of "10 Screenwriters to Watch".^[6]

• Mr In-Between (1998), initially to be entitled Adrenochrome
• Christendom (1999)
• Holloway Falls (2003)
• Always the Sun (2004)
• Heartland (a memoir) (2006)
• Natural History (2007)
• Burial (2009)
• Captured (2010)
• Luther: The Calling (2011)