Adolescence has always been my subject, though I’m not sure it will be forever. My favourite works of literature are nearly all secretly YA- Pride and Prejudice, Henry IV, Hamlet, The Sword in the Stone, The Brothers Karamazov…. I wrote my junior thesis at Harvard on Edith Wharton’s Age of Innocence, a coming of age story. She had a new young adult list, so I always felt I slightly stumbled into YA writing, but I don’t think it’s that simple. I wrote a “practice novel” -a horse book- which was all I thought I was capable of writing, and with that book found a wonderful agent who had just switched over from editing at Oxford University Press. People often say their subject or audience chose them, rather than vice versa. What brought you to write for young adults precisely? You landed in the young adult niche in 2004 with How I Live Now.
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