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Patrick Ness was born on October 17, 1971 near Fort Belvoir, Virginia. He studied English Literature and is a graduate of the University of Southern California. He was a corporate writer before moving to London in 1999. He taught creative writing at Oxford University and is a literary critic and reviewer for the Guardian and other major newspapers. He is the author of eight novels including The Rest of Us Just Live Here and a short story collection entitled Topics About Which I Know Nothing. His young adult novels include the Chaos Walking trilogy, More Than This, and Monsters of Men, which won the Carnegie Medal. A Monster Calls won the Kate Greenaway Medal for illustration, the Carnegie Medal, and was made into a movie and released in October 2016. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from The Knife of Never Letting Go… (more)
The Knife of Never Letting Go 6,190 copies, 395 reviews
A Monster Calls 5,248 copies, 454 reviews
The Ask and the Answer 2,815 copies, 167 reviews
Monsters of Men 2,408 copies, 151 reviews
The Rest of Us Just Live Here 1,750 copies, 95 reviews
More Than This 1,576 copies, 81 reviews
The Crane Wife 630 copies, 39 reviews
Release 571 copies, 24 reviews
The New World 455 copies, 29 reviews
Burn 373 copies, 18 reviews
And The Ocean Was Our Sky 348 copies, 26 reviews
A Monster Calls [2016 film] (Screenwriter / Original book) 97 copies, 2 reviews
The Crash of Hennington 93 copies, 2 reviews
Doctor Who: 11 Doctors, 11 Stories (Contributor) 245 copies, 3 reviews
Doctor Who: 12 Doctors, 12 Stories (Contributor) 241 copies, 5 reviews
Monstrous Affections: An Anthology of Beastly Tales (Contributor) 226 copies, 13 reviews
Doctor Who: 13 Doctors, 13 Stories (Contributor) 41 copies, 1 review
Losing It (Contributor) 33 copies
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