Melvin Burgess is a British author of children's fiction. His first book, The Cry of the Wolf, was published in 1990. He gained a certain amount of notoriety in 1996 with the publication of Junk, which dealt with the controversial idea of heroin-addicted teenagers. Junk soon became one of the best-known young adult books of the decade. He lives in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, with his partner Anita.
