Occupation Writer, novelist Genre Fiction Role Writer Movies How I Live Now | Nationality American Name Meg Rosoff Education Harvard University | |
Awards Carnegie Medal, Michael L. Printz Award, Guardian Children's Fiction Prize Nominations National Book Award for Young People's Literature, Angus Book Award Books How I Live Now, Picture Me Gone, What I Was, Just in Case, There is No Dog Similar People Kevin Macdonald, Harley Bird, Jeremy Brock, Saoirse Ronan, Tony Grisoni | ||
Meg rosoff on writing adolescence and james bond
Meg Rosoff (born 16 Oct 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. Her second novel, Just In Case (Penguin, 2006) won the annual Carnegie Medal from the British librarians recognising the year's best children's book published in the U.K.
Contents
- Meg rosoff on writing adolescence and james bond
- Meg Rosoff on character and plot
- Early life and education
- Career
- How I Live Now
- Just In Case
- What I Was
- The Brides Farewell
- References
Meg Rosoff on character and plot
Early life and education
Rosoff was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1956, the second of four sisters. Her family were Jewish and practised Judaism; Rosoff herself is an atheist. She attended Harvard University from 1974, graduating three years later. She then moved to England and studied sculpture at Saint Martin's School of Art in London. She returned to the United States to finish her degree in 1980, and later moved to New York City for 9 years, where she worked in publishing and advertising.
Career
In 1989, at the age of 32 Rosoff returned to London and has lived there ever since. Between 1989 and 2003, she worked for a variety of advertising agencies as a copywriter. She began to write novels after her youngest sister died of breast cancer. Her young-adult novel How I Live Now was published in 2004, in the same week she was diagnosed with breast cancer. It won the annual Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime book award judged by a panel of British children's book writers, and the annual Michael L. Printz Award from the American Library Association, recognising the year's "best book written for teens, based entirely on its literary merit". In 2005 she published a children's book, Meet Wild Boars, which was illustrated by Sophie Blackall. Just in Case, published in 2006, won the British Carnegie Medal and German Jugendliteraturpreis. What I Was, her third novel was published in August 2007, followed by two more collaborations with Blackall: Wild Boars Cook and Jumpy Jack and Googily. Another novel, The Bride 's Farewell was named one of 2009's ten best books for young adults that were published in the American adult market.
There Is No Dog, published by Penguin in 2011 (US edition, Putnam, 2012) is a comic novel supposing that God the creator is a 19-year-old boy. Rosoff told Book Nerd, "The title comes from a joke about a dyslexic atheist walking up and down in front of a church with a sign that reads THERE IS NO DOG."
Picture Me Gone is a finalist for the 2013 National Book Award for Young People's Literature (U.S.).
The film of How I Live Now directed by Kevin MacDonald and starring Saoirse Ronan opened in Britain on 4 October 2013 and in America and Canada on 5 November 2013.
Rossoff was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2014.
How I Live Now
Just In Case
What I Was
The Bride's Farewell
Picture Me Gone