Meg Rosoff
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born
January 01, 1956
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female
place of birth
Boston, The United States
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Meg Rosoff was born in Boston and had three or four careers in publishing and advertising before she moved to London in 1989, where she lives now with her husband and daughter. Formerly a Young Adult author, Meg has earned numerous prizes including the highest American and British honors for YA fiction: the Michael L. Printz Award and the Carnegie Medal.
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How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff avg rating 3.79 — 2,110 ratings — published 2004 26 editions |
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What I Was by Meg Rosoff avg rating 3.46 — 352 ratings — published 2007 19 editions |
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Just In Case by Meg Rosoff avg rating 3.31 — 331 ratings — published 2006 8 editions |
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Jumpy Jack & Googily by Meg Rosoff, Sophie Blackall avg rating 3.86 — 95 ratings — published 2008 |
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The Bride's Farewell by Meg Rosoff avg rating 3.69 — 35 ratings — published 2009 7 editions |
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Wild Boars Cook by Meg Rosoff, Sophie Blackall avg rating 3.52 — 48 ratings — published 2008 |
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Meet Wild Boars (Bccb Blue Ribbon Picture Book Awards (Awards)) by Meg Rosoff, Sophie Blackall avg rating 3.71 — 38 ratings — published 2005 5 editions |
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Children's Writers' & Artists' Yearbook 2007 (Yearbook) by Meg Cabot, Alex Hamilton, Anthony Horowitz, Michelle Paver, Meg Rosoff, Matthew Skelton, Kaye Umansky avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2006 |
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London Guide: Your Passport to Great Travel! by Meg Rosoff, Caren Acker avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 1995 3 editions |
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"I was dying, of course, but then we all are. Every day, in perfect increments, I was dying of loss.
The only help for my condition, then as now, is that I refused to let go of what I loved. I wrote everything down, at first in choppy fragments; a sentence here, a few words there, it was the most I could handle at the time. Later I wrote more, my grief muffled but not eased by the passage of time.
When I go back over my writing now I can barely read it. The happiness is the worst. Some days I can't bring myself to remember. But I will not relinquish a single detail of the past. What remains of my life depends on what happened six years ago.
In my brain, in my limbs, in my dreams, it is still happening."
— Meg Rosoff (How I Live Now)
The only help for my condition, then as now, is that I refused to let go of what I loved. I wrote everything down, at first in choppy fragments; a sentence here, a few words there, it was the most I could handle at the time. Later I wrote more, my grief muffled but not eased by the passage of time.
When I go back over my writing now I can barely read it. The happiness is the worst. Some days I can't bring myself to remember. But I will not relinquish a single detail of the past. What remains of my life depends on what happened six years ago.
In my brain, in my limbs, in my dreams, it is still happening."
— Meg Rosoff (How I Live Now)
"I didn't seem to have that effect on anyone but it would have been a waste for both of us to be saints."
— Meg Rosoff (How I Live Now)
— Meg Rosoff (How I Live Now)
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