Burgess, Melvin: -Melvin Burgess'sfirst novel, The Cry of the Wolf, was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, which he then won for his cult novel Smack, along with the Guardian's Children's Fiction Prize. He won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature for * Doing It. Melvin live...

Burgess, Melvin: -Melvin Burgess'sfirst novel, The Cry of the Wolf, was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, which he then won for his cult novel Smack, along with the Guardian's Children's Fiction Prize. He won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature for * Doing It. Melvin lives in Britain.