Patrick Ness is an award-winning author who claims three American states as home: born in Virginia, raised in Hawaii and Washington, and later educated in California at USC. Since 1999, he has lived in the United Kingdom, mostly in London. He is the author of nine books, including two adult novels (The Crash of Hennington and The Crane Wife), a short story collection (Topics About Which I Know Nothing), and ten acclaimed young adult novels, among them The Knife of Never Letting Go, The Ask and the Answer, Monsters of Men, A Monster Calls, More Than This, The Rest of Us Just Live Here, Release, And the Ocean Was Our Sky, Burn, and Different for Boys. Ness has received numerous honors for his work, including two Carnegie Medals, the Costa Children’s Book Award, the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize, the Red House Book Award, the Jugendliteratur Preis, the UKLA Award, and the Booktrust Teenage Prize. Notably, illustrator Jim Kay was awarded the Greenaway Medal for his artwork in A Monster Calls.
