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Emma Clayton (born June 11, 1968) is a British children's novelist and author of dystopian thriller, The Roar. The Roar was nominated for the Carnegie Medal 2009, won the Yorkshire Coast Book Award and was selected for the USBBY 2010 Outstanding International Books Honor List and the 2010 Texas Lone Star Reading List.

At school, Clayton was interested in the arts, but left school at 16, discouraged by conventional career paths. In her late teens, she trained as a field archaeologist, spent a brief time working as a freelance illustrator, then returned to education in her mid-twenties, studying film and screen writing. She wrote her first novel at 26, after the birth of her daughter. This was followed by The Roar several years later.

Emma Clayton

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