www.davidlevithan.com
@loversdiction
E. Lockhart is the author of nine novels, including We Were Liars, The Boyfriend List, Fly on the Wall and The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, which was a Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book, a finalist for the National Book Award, and winner of a Cybils Award for Best Young Adult Novel.
www.emilylockhart.com
@elockhart
Non Pratt’s real name is Leonie, but please don’t call her that unless she’s done something really bad. She grew up in Teeside and now lives in London. She wrote her first book aged fourteen. After graduating from Cambridge University, Non decided to work in children’s publishing. Unfortunately, she went to her first job interview with her top on inside out. Fortunately, they hired her anyway. Since then she has worked as a non-fiction editor at Usborne and a fiction editor at Catnip. She now writes full-time, and Trouble was her debut novel.
www.nonpratt.com
@NonPratt
Lauren Myracle is a graduate of the Vermont College MFA programme in writing for children and young adults. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling Internet Girls series (ttyl, ttfn, and l8r, g8r) and Rhymes with Witches, among many other books for teenagers and young people. She grew up in Atlanta and currently resides in Fort Collins, Colorado, with her husband and their three young children.
www.laurenmyracle.com
@LaurenMyracle
Patrick Ness is the author of the Chaos Walking Trilogy – The Knife of Never Letting Go, The Ask and the Answer, and Monsters of Men – for which he has won numerous awards, including the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize, the Booktrust Teenage Prize, the Costa Children’s Book Award and the Carnegie Medal. He lives in London.
www.patrickness.com
@Patrick_Ness
Philip Pullman is one of the most highly acclaimed children’s authors of the decade. He has been on the shortlist of just about every major children’s book award in the last few years, and has won the Smarties Prize (Gold Award, 9–11 age category) for The Firework-Maker’s Daughter and the prestigious Carnegie Medal for Northern Lights. He was the first children’s author ever to win the Whitbread Prize for his novel The Amber Spyglass. He lives in Oxford.
www.philip-pullman.com
@PhilipPullman
Bali Rai has written nine young adult novels for Random House Children’s Publishers, as well as the Soccer Squad series for younger readers. His first novel, (un)arranged marriage, created a huge amount of interest and won many awards, including the Angus Book Award and the Leicester Book of the Year. It was also shortlisted for the prestigious Branford Boase first novel award. Rani and Sukh and The Whisper were both shortlisted for the Booktrust Teenage Prize. He was born in Leicester, where he still lives, writing full-time and visiting schools to talk about his books.
www.balirai.co.uk
@balirai
Marcus Sedgwick used to work in children’s publishing and before that he was a bookseller. He now happily writes full-time. His books have been shortlisted for many awards, including the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize, the Blue Peter Book Award, the Carnegie Medal and the Edgar Allan Poe Award. Marcus lives in Cambridge.
www.marcussedgwick.com
@marcussedgwick
Andrew Smith has always wanted to be a writer. After graduating college, he wrote for newspapers and radio stations, but found it wasn’t the kind of writing he’d dreamed about doing. Born with an impulse to travel, Smith, the son of an immigrant, bounced around the world and from job to job, before settling down in Southern California. There, he got his first ‘real job’, as a teacher in an alternative educational programme for at-risk teens, married, and moved to a rural mountain location. Smith has now written several award-winning YA novels; Grasshopper Jungle is his seventh and the first to be published in the UK. He lives with his wife, two children, two horses, three dogs, three cats and one irritable lizard named Leo.
www.andrewsmithauthor.com
@marburyjack
Tabitha Suzuma was born in 1975 and lives in London. She has always loved writing and would regularly get into trouble at the French Lycée for writing stories instead of listening in class. She used to work as a primary school teacher and now divides her time between writing and tutoring. Her first novel, A Note of Madness, was published to great critical acclaim.
www.tabithasuzuma.com
@TabithaSuzuma
Markus Zusak was born in 1975 and is the author of five books, including I Am the Messenger and the international bestseller The Book Thief, which is translated into more than forty languages. He lives in Sydney with his wife and two children.
www.zusakbooks.tumblr.com
@Markus_Zusak
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MALORIE BLACKMAN has written over sixty books and is acknowledged as one of today’s most imaginative and convincing writers for young readers.
In 2005 she was honoured with the Eleanor Farjeon Award in recognition of her contribution to children’s books, and in 2008 she received an OBE for her services to children’s literature. She has been described by The Times as ‘a national treasure’.
Malorie Blackman is the Children’s Laureate 2013–15.
Also by Malorie Blackman
The Noughts & Crosses sequence:
Noughts & Crosses
Knife Edge
Checkmate
Double Cross
Noble Conflict
Boys Don’t Cry
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