Meg Rosoff: Which living person do you most admire, and why?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Meg Rosoff said elsewhere, not written here

My husband is the kindest, funniest, most strange and wondrous person I know.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 November 2013 source ↗

Others on this question

Steffi Graf German tennis player

The man I know the best: Andre.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 June 2013 source ↗

David Gandy British model

David Attenborough. Not only has he taught us so much, but he’s also brought so much happiness to so many people.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 April 2020 source ↗

Adwoa Aboah British fashion model

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – everything she writes speaks to me. Her Ted talk, We Should All Be Feminists, inspired everything I do with Gurls Talk.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 March 2019 source ↗

Reggie Yates British actor and media personality

Anybody who invests the lion’s share of their time in helping others.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 November 2017 source ↗

Someone else to write my books.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 November 2013 source ↗

In August, when my middle sister called to tell me her breast cancer had spread to her spine, pelvis and bones. It turned out not to be true.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 November 2013 source ↗

Reasons To Be Cheerful, by Ian Dury.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 November 2013 source ↗

Swimming in the North Sea at midnight, surrounded by phosphorescence.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 November 2013 source ↗

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