Meg Rosoff, born in 1956 in Boston, is an american author. She has written three books ("How i live now", "Just in Case" & "What I was") and received many awards for them.
Meg Rosoff studied three years in Harvard, but she didn't like Harvard much and always thought she had to get away from there. After Harvard she attended the art academy in London - where she got to know here contemporary husband - for one year and finally moved to New York, to work in advertising.
1989 she planned to move to London for three months, but stayed and is still living there with her husband and her daughter. When her youngest sister died of breast cancer she realizied: if she was going to write a book, she had to do it soon, because life is short. And thats what she did.
by the way here is a link to Meg's interesting blog:
http://www.megrosoff.co.uk/blog/
Year 9 "Gymnasium" reads 18 different books in English for young readers and presents them in this blog. This is one part of their presentation, the other one will be orally held in class. Click on "Tasks" on the left and you'll find out more about the reading tasks! Going off to Australia in year 10. John Marsden's "Tomorrow When the War Began" is going to be our choice for our year 10 literature classes this year. Find out more on the pages below.
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