

On, he was revealed to be the author of Tip of the Tongue, the May e-short featuring the Fifth Doctor and Nyssa as part Puffin's eleven Doctor Who e-shorts in honor of the show's 50th anniversary. He has won numerous awards, including the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, the Booktrust Teenage Prize, and the Costa Children's Book Award. He has been a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund and was the first Writer in Residence for Booktrust. In London, Patrick Ness taught creative writing at Oxford University and wrote reviews for various newspapers, including The Daily Telegraph and The Guardian, which he still works for today.

Ness became a British citizen in 2005, and was working on his first novel when he moved to London in 1999. He published his first story in Genre magazine in 1997. Ness then went to study English Literature at the University of Southern California.Īfter graduating, he worked as a corporate writer for a cable company where he wrote anything from manuals, to speeches, to apology letters for disgruntled cable customers. They moved to Hawaii, where he lived until he was six, and then spent the next ten years in Washington state before moving to Los Angeles.

Patrick Ness, an award-winning novelist, was born on October 19,1971 in the U.S on Fort Belvoir army face, near Alexandria, Virginia, where is father was a drill sergeant in the US Army.
