Bestselling author Neil Gaiman, born and raised in England,
now lives in Minnesota. He has long been one of the top writers
in modern comics, as well as writing books for readers of all
ages. He is listed in the Dictionary of Literary Biography as one
of the top ten living post-modern writers, and is a prolific
creator of works of prose, poetry, film, journalism, comics, song
lyrics, and drama.
His New York Times bestselling 2001 novel for adults, American
Gods, was awarded the Hugo, Nebula, Bram Stoker, SFX, and Locus
awards. Gaiman's eagerly awaited next novel for adults, Anansi
Boys debuted on the New York Times Bestseller list in September,
2005. The Sundance Film Festival premiere of Mirrormask, a Jim
Henson Company Production written by Neil Gaiman and directed by
Dave McKean, took place in January 2005.
With Roger Avary, Neil Gaiman wrote the script for Beowulf,
directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Anthony Hopkins and
Angelina Jolie. Gaiman was the creator/writer of monthly cult DC
Comics horror-weird series, Sandman.
His six-part fantastical TV series for the BBC, Neverwhere, aired
in 1996. His novel, also called Neverwhere, set in the same
strange underground world as the television series, was released
in 1997.
Gaiman's first book for children, The Day I Swapped My Dad For
Two Goldfish, came out in May 1997, was listed by Newsweek as one
of the best children's books of the year. Stardust, a prose novel
in four parts, began to appear from DC Comics in October
1997.
His collection of short fiction, Smoke and Mirrors: Short
Fictions and Illusions, was published in 1998. Gaiman's 1999
return to Sandman, the prose book The Dream Catchers. Two Plays
For Voices (2002), an audio adaptation of two of Gaiman's short
stories, and starring Brian Dennehy and Bebe Neuwirth, was
awarded a 2002 Audie Award by the Audio Publishers Association.
At the end of 2002 Gaiman wrote and directed his first film, in
"A Short Film about John Bolton," which is available on
DVD.
His children's novel Coraline, published in
2002, was also a New York Times and international bestseller and
an enormous critical success; it won the Elizabeth Burr/
Worzalla, the BSFA, the Hugo, the Nebula, and the Bram Stoker
awards.
In 2003 The Wolves in the Walls, illustrated by his longtime
collaborator Dave McKean, was published, and it was named by the
New York Times as one of the best illustrated books of the year.
It is currently being made into an opera by the Scottish National
Theatre. 2003 also saw the appearance of the first Sandman
graphic novel in seven years, Endless Nights, which was published
by DC Comics and was the first graphic novel to make the New York
Times bestseller list.
In 2004, Gaiman published the first volume of a serialized story
for Marvel called 1602. This year, Coraline was made in to a
brilliant stop motion animation film in 2009, and has also seen
release as a play, video game, and comic book. His new work, The
Graveyard Book, is also now available on sale.
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