Ness, P: Rest of Us Just Live Here

Patrick Ness is best known for his books for young adults, including the Chaos Walking trilogy, A Monster Calls, and More Than This. Ness won the Carnegie Medal from British librarians in both 2011 and 2012, for Monsters of Men and A Monster Calls, which recognized each as the best new book for children or young adults published in the U.K. He is one of seven writers to win two Medals and the second to win consecutively. The first book in the Chaos Walking trilogy, The Knife of Never Letting Go, won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, and A Monster Calls was awarded the Kate Greenaway Medal.

Patrick's books are also proving popular in Hollywood. Filming has begun on the feature film adaptation of A Monster Calls, starring Liam Neeson and Sigourney Weaver. Directed by Juan Antonio Bayona, the film is slated for a major US release in Fall 2016. Chaos Walking has been adapted by Oscar-winning screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, with fellow Oscar-winner Robert Zemeckis set to direct. Since adapting A Monster Calls, Patrick is now being snapped up by major studios to write more screenplays, including a movie adaptation of The Night Circus.

He has taught Creative Writing at Oxford University, and is a literary critic for the Guardian. Born in Virginia, he lives in London.