Patrick Ness

Patrick Ness (born 1971 in Alexandria, Virginia) is an American-British author and journalist. He grew up in the United States and Hawaii and lived in London for many years, where he worked as a literary critic for The Guardian. His best-known works include the novel A Monster Calls (2011), published in German as Sieben Minuten nach Mitternacht. The book develops an idea by writer Siobhan Dowd, whose early death prevented her from turning it into a story of her own. Ness has received numerous awards, including the Carnegie Medal, the Costa Children’s Book Award and the German Youth Literature Prize. For A Monster Calls, he became the first author to receive the Carnegie Medal and the Kate Greenaway Award simultaneously.