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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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Tekijän teokset

Hollow City (2014) 7,802 kappaletta
Library of Souls (2015) 5,082 kappaletta
A Map of Days (2018) 1,874 kappaletta
Tales of the Peculiar (2016) 1,644 kappaletta
The Conference of the Birds (2020) 1,113 kappaletta
The Desolations of Devil's Acre (2021) 751 kappaletta
Miss Peregrine's Museum of Wonders (2022) 155 kappaletta
Hollow City: The Graphic Novel (1635) 125 kappaletta
Scatterbrained (2006) — Tekijä — 125 kappaletta
A Map of Days 1 kappale
Grad pustoduha (2014) 1 kappale
Talking Pictures 1 kappale
Sabor ptica (2020) 1 kappale

Associated Works

The Wonderful O (1957) — Johdanto, eräät painokset804 kappaletta
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children [2016 film] (2016) — Tekijä — 441 kappaletta
The Art of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016) — Esipuhe — 45 kappaletta

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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
Agentti
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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A beautiful book! Definitely one of the most beautiful novels I've read.
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!
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