![]() ![]() In 2005 she published a children's book, Meet Wild Boars, which was illustrated by Sophie Blackall. Printz Award from the American Library Association, recognising the year's "best book written for teens, based entirely on its literary merit". It won the annual Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, and the annual Michael L. Her young-adult novel How I Live Now was published in 2004, in the same week she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She began to write novels after her youngest sister died of breast cancer. Between 19, she worked for a variety of advertising agencies as a copywriter. In 1989, at the age of 32 Rosoff returned to London and has lived there ever since. 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. She attended Harvard University from 1974-1977, then moved to London and studied sculpture at Saint Martin's School of Art. Rosoff was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1956, into a Jewish family, the second of four sisters. 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 UK. 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. Meg Rosoff (born 16 October 1956) is an American writer based in London, United Kingdom. ![]()
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