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Patrick Ness was born on 17 October, 1971 in Fort Belvoir, Virginia, U.S., is an American-British author, journalist, lecturer, and screenwriter (born 1971). Discover Patrick Ness's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 52 years old?
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Patrick Ness FRSL (born 17 October 1971) is an American-British author, journalist, lecturer, and screenwriter.
Born in the United States, Ness moved to London and holds dual citizenship.
He is best known for his books for young adults, including the Chaos Walking trilogy and A Monster Calls.
He published his first story in Genre magazine in 1997 and was working on his first novel when he moved to London in 1999.
Ness's first novel, The Crash of Hennington, was published in 2003, and was followed by his short story collection, Topics About Which I Know Nothing, in 2004.
Ness's first young adult novel was The Knife of Never Letting Go.
Ness was naturalised as a British citizen in 2005.
He entered into a civil partnership with his partner in 2006, less than two months after the Civil Partnership Act came into force.
In February 2023, Patrick disclosed on Instagram that he had married Nick Coveney in Las Vegas in October 2022.
He also stated that within the previous "4 or 5 years" he had gotten divorced.
Ness taught creative writing at Oxford University and has written and reviewed for The Daily Telegraph, The Times Literary Supplement, The Sunday Telegraph and The Guardian.
He has been a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund, and was the first Writer in Residence for Booktrust.
Dowd had been diagnosed with cancer and was unable to complete the story before she died in 2007.
Dowd and Ness shared an editor at Walker, Denise Johnstone-Burt, and after Dowd's death, Walker arranged for Ness to complete the story from her notes.
Ness says his only guideline was to write a book he thought Dowd would have liked.
Jim Kay was hired to illustrate the book, and the two completed the book without meeting.
Ness won the Carnegie and Kay won the companion Kate Greenaway Medal, the first time one book has won both medals.
It won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize in 2008.
The book was followed by The Ask and the Answer, and Monsters of Men.
Together, the three books make up the Chaos Walking trilogy.
Ness has also written three short stories set in the Chaos Walking universe; the prequels "The New World" and "The Wide, Wide Sea", and "Snowscape", which is set after the events of Monsters of Men.
Ness won the annual Carnegie Medal in 2011 and in 2012, for Monsters of Men and A Monster Calls.
He is one of seven writers to win two Medals, and the second to win consecutively.
The short stories are available as free-to-download e-books, and have been included in the 2013 UK print editions of the novels.
A Monster Calls originated with the Irish writer, Siobhan Dowd.
On 7 May 2013, Ness 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 honour of the show's 50th anniversary.
His fourth young adult novel, More Than This, was published on 5 September 2013.
The Crane Wife, Ness's third novel for adults, was published on 30 December 2014.
In 2014, Ness delivered the keynote speech at the Children's and Young Adult Program of the Berlin International Literature Festival.
It later made the Carnegie Medal shortlist of 2015.
The Rest of Us Just Live Here, was published 25 August 2015 in the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand, and 5 October 2015 in Canada and the United States.
On 1 October 2015, the BBC announced that Ness would be writing a Doctor Who spin-off entitled Class. The resulting eight-part series aired on BBC Three's online channel toward the end of 2016.
The BBC cancelled Class after one series.
He wrote the screenplay of the 2016 film adaptation of A Monster Calls, and was the creator and writer of the Doctor Who spin-off series Class.
Ness was born near the Fort Belvoir Army base, near Alexandria, Virginia, where his father was a Sergeant in the US Army.
They moved to Hawaii, where he lived until he was six, then spent the next ten years in Washington state, before moving to Los Angeles.
Ness studied English Literature at the University of Southern California.
After graduating, he worked as corporate writer for a cable company.
Release, was published on 4 May 2017, described by Ness as a "private and intense book" with more personal inspiration than any before it.
In June 2021, Ness was said to be preparing a prequel script to the Napoleonic sea adventure movie Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, based on the works of Patrick O'Brian.