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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