'Chaos Walking' is Ness’s acclaimed and prizewinning trilogy for teens, an epic dystopian fantasy in which he pits the resources of his two heroes, straight-talking Todd Hewitt and indomitable Viola Eade, against the plans of arch-villain Mayor Prentiss. He has also been a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund, and in 2009 was the first Writer in Residence for Booktrust.
He currently reviews books for The Guardian. Patrick Ness has taught Creative Writing at Oxford University, and written journalism and criticism for the Sunday Telegraph, the Daily Telegraph, and the Times Literary Supplement. Later books include A Monster Calls (2011), based on an idea by Siobhan Dowd, which won the Carnegie Medal in 2012 and was adapted into a film, with a screenplay by Ness, in 2016 More Than This (2013), The Rest of Us Just Live Here (2015), and Release (2018), all shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and a novel for adults, The Crane Wife (2014). The third book, Monsters of Men, was published in 2010. In 2009, the second book in the trilogy, The Ask and the Answer, won the Costa Children's Book Award. This book won the 2008 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and the Booktrust Teenage Prize, and was shortlisted for the 2009 Carnegie Medal. It is set in a dystopian world where everyone can hear everyone else's thoughts. In 2008, he published the first in his 'Chaos Walking' trilogy for young adults, The Knife of Never Letting Go. His second book was a collection of short stories, Topics About Which I Know Nothing (2004).
He read English Literature at the University of Southern California, and worked as a corporate writer at a cable company, before the publication of his first novel, The Crash of Hennington, in 2003. Patrick Ness was born in the US in 1971, living in the western states of Hawaii, Washington and California, before moving to England in 1999.
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