Meg Rosoff (born 1956) is an American author based in London since 1989. She is best known for the novel How I Live Now (Puffin, 2004), which won the Guardian Prize, Printz Award, and Branford Boase Award and made the Whitbread Awards shortlist. Her second novel, Just In Case (Penguin, 2006) won the annual Carnegie Medal in Literature from the British librarians recognising the year's best children's book published in the U.K.
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