Meg Rosoff

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. 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.

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