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Meg Rosoff (born 16 October 1956) is an American writer based in London, United Kingdom. She is best known for the novel How I Live Now (Puffin, 2004), which won the Guardian Prize, Printz Award, and Branford Boase Award and made the Whitbread Awards shortlist.
WINNER OF THE ASTRID LINDGREN MEMORIAL AWARD. Meg Rosoff grew up in a suburb of Boston and moved to London in 1989. She spent fifteen years working in advertising before writing her first novel, How I Live Now, which has sold more than a million copies in thirty-six territories. It won the Guardian Children’s Prize and the Printz Award in the ...
Feb 13, 2016 · Sat 13 Feb 2016 05.00 EST. A fter producing seven high-end Young Adult novels in 12 years, Meg Rosoff has published her first book for adults – a sweet romcom about a hapless twentysomething...
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Jul 17, 2020 · Meg Rosoff. Photograph: Stefan Tell. View image in fullscreen. I wandered through Elizabeth Jane Howard’s five Cazalet novels in a trance of bliss … Meg Rosoff. Photograph: Stefan Tell.
Penguin Group (UK) Agents: Felicity Bryan. Biography. Meg Rosoff was born in 1956 in Boston, USA. She studied at Harvard University and left for England in 1977 to enter St Martin's School of Art, later returning to finish her degree at Harvard. She worked in New York City for 10 years in publishing and advertising, before moving to England.
What I Was is a 2007 young adult novel by Meg Rosoff, her third. The book was shortlisted for both the Costa Children's Book Award and the Carnegie Medal.
