Patrick Ness
| Patrick Ness | |
|---|---|
| Born |
17 October 1971 Fort Belvoir, Virginia, United States |
| Occupation | Writer, screenwriter and television producer |
| Nationality | American, British |
| Spouse | (m. 2013) |
Patrick Ness (born October 17, 1971) is a British-American author, journalist, lecturer, and screenwriter who moved to London at the age of 28 and now holds dual citizenship. He is best known for his books for young adults, including the Chaos Walking trilogy and A Monster Calls.
Ness won the annual Carnegie Medal from the British librarians both in 2011 and in 2012, for Monsters of Men and A Monster Calls, recognising 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 (no one has won three) and the second to win consecutively.
He wrote the screenplay of the eponymous film adaptation of A Monster Calls, and is the creator and writer of the Doctor Who spin-off series Class.
Ness's first novel, The Crash of Hennington, was published in 2003 and was followed soon after by his short story collection Topics About Which I Know Nothing, which was released in 2004.
Ness's first young adult novel was The Knife of Never Letting Go, which in 2008 was awarded the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, an annual book award judged by a panel of British children's writers.The Ask and the Answer and Monsters of Men were sequels to The Knife of Never Letting Go; jointly they are called the "Chaos Walking trilogy" and The Knife has been reissued with a front cover banner "Chaos Walking: Book One". Ness has also published three short stories in the Chaos Walking universe, the prequels "The New World", "The Wide, Wide Sea", and "Snowscape", set after the events of Monsters of Men. The short stories are available as free-to-download e-books, and have been included in the 2013 UK print editions of the novels.
A Monster Calls (2011) originated with Siobhan Dowd, another writer with the same editor at Walker, Denise Johnstone-Burt. Before her August 2007 death, Dowd and Johnstone-Burt had discussed the story and Dowd was contracted to write it. Afterward, Walker arranged separately with Ness to write and Jim Kay to illustrate, and those two completed the book without meeting. Ness won the Carnegie and Kay won the companion CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal (established 1955), the first time one book has won both medals.
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