The British newspaper The Times once described Meg Rosoff's literary output thusly: "Searingly well written, her books read like Samuel Beckett on ecstasy." Perhaps best known for her first novel, How ...

The Golden Rule, the Rule of Law, the fortress of maxims and tenets, canons and commandments we build to keep chaos at bay thoroughly fail young Hilary, the protagonist of Meg Rosoff's novel "What I ...

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Meg Rosoff has been named the winner of the 5 million kronor ($615,000) Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award for literature aimed at children and young adults. A 59-year-old Boston native ...

Meg Rosoff, it may be surmised, is something of a dog nut. Her latest novel, Jonathan Unleashed, gives starring roles to an endearing pair – Sissy the spaniel and a border collie named Dante – who’ve ...

Rosoff (Just in Case) looks at the world’s natural disasters, injustices, and chaos and presents a perfectly reasonable explanation: God is a horny teenage boy. According to this gleefully heretical ...

Meg Rosoff's How I Live Now is a particularly daring young adult novel that tackles the topics of war, young love, anorexia, and even incest. Published in 2004, it was a "word-of-mouth" best-seller ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Meg Rosoff won the richest children's prize, the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, earlier this year. But ...

Meg Rosoff, a London-based American, writes harrowing, psychologically complex novels for young adults. In “How I Live Now,” 15-year-old Daisy leaves the United States for England to spend the summer ...

When suffering from weltschmerz, the best medicine for your malaise may be to bring a dog into your life. Or perhaps two. On paper, Jonathan Trefoil’s life appears to be everything he imagined his ...

Meg Rosoff, a London-based American, writes harrowing, psychologically complex novels for young adults. In “How I Live Now,” 15-year-old Daisy leaves the United States for England to spend the summer ...