Meg Rosoff

Meg Rosoff (born 16 October 1956) is an American-British author best known for her debut novel How I Live Now (2004), which won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, Michael L. Printz Award, and other honors, and her second novel Just in Case (2006), recipient of the Carnegie Medal. Raised in a Boston suburb, she studied at Harvard and St. Martin's School of Art, worked in publishing and advertising, and moved to London in 1989, where she now lives. Her works, often young adult fiction, have earned numerous international awards, including the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award in 2016.[1][2][3]

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