Meg Rosoff became a publishing sensation with her first novel, How I Live Now , which won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize; Just in Case , won the CILIP Carnegie Medal in 2007; and What I Was was described by The Times as 'Samuel Beckett on Ecstasy'. Meg was born and grew up in Boston, USA, worked in advertising in New York and has lived in London for the last 20 years. She is married to an artist and they have one daughter.