Ransom Riggs
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Ransom Riggs is a writer and filmmaker. He was born in Marland in 1980 and attended the Pine View School for the Gifted in Florida. He studied English literature at Kenyon College and studied film at the University of Southern California. His work on short films for the Internet and blogging for näytä lisää Mental Floss magazine got him a job writing The Sherlock Holmes Handbook which was released as a tie-in to the 2009 Sherlock Holmes film. Riggs had collected curious vernacular photographs and approached his publisher, Quirk Books, about using some of them in a picture book. On the suggestion of an editor, Riggs used the photographs as a guide from which to put together a narrative. The resulting book was Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children which made The New York Times Best Seller list. One of his other books inspired by old photographs entitled Taking Pictures was published in 2012. Hollow City, the sequel to Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, also made The New York Times Best Seller List. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
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The Sherlock Holmes Handbook: The Methods and Mysteries of the World's Greatest Detective (2009) 311 kappaletta
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children / Hollow City / Library of Souls / Tales of the Peculiar (2015) 18 kappaletta
De kaart der dagen: Het vierde boek van De bijzondere kinderen van mevrouw Peregrine (2018) 3 kappaletta
De verwoestingen van Devil's Acre: Het zesde boek van de bijzondere kinderen van mevrouw Peregrine (2022) 2 kappaletta
A Map of Days 1 kappale
Talking Pictures 1 kappale
Miss Peregrine et les enfants particuliers 3 - La Bibliothèque des âmes: Livre audio 1 CD MP3 (2018) 1 kappale
A convenção das aves (O lar da srta. Peregrine para crianças peculiares Livro 5) (Portuguese… 1 kappale
Le desolazioni di Devil's Acre. Il capitolo finale di Miss Peregrine. La casa dei ragazzi speciali (2022) 1 kappale
A Map of Days (Preview) 1 kappale
Strange Geographies 1 kappale
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- Syntymäaika
- 1979-02-03
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- USA
- Syntymäpaikka
- Maryland, USA
- Asuinpaikat
- Maryland, USA
Florida, USA
Los Angeles, California, USA - Koulutus
- Kenyon College (BA ∙ English ∙ 2001)
University of Southern California (film ∙ 2006)
Pine View School for the Gifted - Ammatit
- young adult writer
filmmaker
blogger - Suhteet
- Mafi, Tahereh (spouse)
- Organisaatiot
- MentalFloss.com
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- Kate Schafer Testerman (KT Literary)
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- Ransom Riggs (born February 3, 1979) is an American writer and filmmaker best known for the book Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Riggs was born in Maryland in 1979 on a 200-year-old farm, and grew up in Florida, where he attended Pine View School for the Gifted. He studied English literature at Kenyon College, where he was a good friend of John Green. He later studied film at the University of Southern California.
His work on short films for the Internet and blogging for Mental Floss got him a job writing The Sherlock Holmes Handbook which was released as a tie-in to the 2009 Sherlock Holmes film.
Riggs had collected curious vernacular photographs and approached his publisher, Quirk Books, about using some of them in a picture book. On the suggestion of an editor, Riggs used the photographs as a guide from which to put together a narrative. The resulting book was Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, which made The New York Times Best Seller list, and was adapted into the 2016 film of the same name.
Another book inspired by old photographs, Talking Pictures, was published by HarperCollins in October 2012.
The second novel in the Miss Peregrine series, Hollow City, was released in January 2014, with the third installment, Library of Souls, following in September 2015. A spin-off book of short stories, Tales of the Peculiar, was released in September 2016. The fourth novel in the series, A Map of Days, was released in October 2018. The fifth novel in the series, The Conference of the Birds, was released in January 2020.
Riggs married author Tahereh Mafi in 2013. They lived in Santa Monica, California and later moved to Irvine, California. Their first child, a daughter, Layla (means "night" in arabic), was born on May, 30, 2017.
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Riggs has a talent of using photographs to supplement the story in a way that doesn't make the pictures illustration to the text but doesn't make the text caption to the pictures. The text and the illustration are equal, as they should be.
I liked the layout of the book, it was a real pleasure to read. The pictures were where the should be, not crammed all together in the middle or the end forcing the reader to jump back and forth, but integrated so that it really seems planned. I'll look forward to seeing how they will manage with the translations, will they keep the original form?
I don't know if the plot blew me away, my taste is darker and more violent, I guess. But I genuinely liked the book from the beginning to the end, and that's already an accomplishment!… (lisätietoja)