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Author Description Melvin Burgess is a British author of children's fiction. His first book, <i>The Cry of the Wolf</i>, was published in 1990. He gained a certain amount of notoriety in 1996 with the publication of <i>Junk</i>, which was published in the shadow of the film of Irvine Welsh's <i>Trainspotting</i>, and dealt with the trendy and controversial idea of heroin-addicted teenagers. <i>Junk</i> soon became, at least in Britain, one of the best-known children's books of the decade.<br /><br />Burgess again courted predictable controversy in 2003, with the publication of <i>Doing It</i>, which dealt with underage sex. America created a show based on the book, <i>Life As We Know It</i>. In his other books, such as <i>Bloodtide</i> and <i>The Ghost Behind the Wall</i>, Burgess has dealt with less realist and sometimes fantastic themes. In 2001 Burgess wrote the novelisation of the film <i>Billy Elliot</i>, based on Lee Hall's screenplay. Polyphony is typical for his most famous novels.<br /><br /><a target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow" href="http://us.macmillan.com/author/melvinburgess">http://us.macmillan.com/author/melvin...</a>

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