Patrick Ness

Patrick Ness’s father was a U.S. Army lieutenant, and Ness was born on a military base near Alexandria, Virginia. Ness grew up in Hawaii, Washington State, and Los Angeles, before eventually going on to study English at the University of Southern California. He eventually moved to London in 1999 and published his first novel, The Crash of Hennington, in 2003. In 2008, Ness published The Knife of Never Letting Go, his first young adult novel and the beginning of the Chaos Walking series (which includes The Ask and the Answer from 2009 and Monsters of Men from 2010). Since the Chaos Walking series, Ness has primarily published standalone young adult novels (including A Monster Calls in 2011 and More than This in 2013) as well as a novel for adults (The Crane Wife, also in 2013). Ness continues to write and has also been involved in film and television, helping adapt his novels A Monster Calls and The Knife of Never Letting Go into films as well as writing and creating a spinoff of the television series Dr. Who.