Award-winning author Meg Rosoff has been speaking to pupils from York schools on the process of writing and researching a novel from an author’s perspective.
Meg, who has been singled out as a name to watch in the literary world, has written three books including How I Live Now, which has been heralded as a classic of our time. She is working on her fourth novel which is due to be released in August.
Meg had jobs in publishing and advertising before bursting on to the literary scene in 2004 with one of the most highly acclaimed debut novels of recent years.
How I Live Now won the Guardian and Branford Boase Awards, was shortlisted for the Orange Prize For New Fiction as well as the Whitbread and has sold more than 200,000 copies in the United Kingdom.
Just In Case, published in 2006, was shortlisted for the Costa Book Award and won the prestigious Carnegie Medal 2007.
She moved from New York to London in 1989, where she lives with her husband and daughter.
The event, held at St Peter’s School, attracted pupils from Bootham School, the Mount School, St Olave’s School as well as students from St Peter’s.
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