Author Ransom Riggs

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Categories: Fiction » Fantasy, Fiction
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Biography of Ransom Riggs
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Ransom Riggs was born on a farm in Maryland in 1980. He grew up in Englewood, Florida and attended Pine View School for the Gifted before receiving a degree in English literature from Kenyon College and one in film from the University of Southern California. He is best known for writing the young adult novel Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, which resulted from collecting old photographs.

Riggs began writing stories, taking photographs, and making movies when he was young, and continued cultivating these interests into adulthood. After graduating from the University of Southern California with a film degree, he attempted to enter the film festival circuit and get discovered. However, this dream did not pan out, and he instead spent much of his time writing scripts or blogging for Mental Floss. This blogging led to a job writing a book called The Sherlock Holmes Handbook that went along with the 2009 Sherlock Holmes film.

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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children was his second project, which came about after he approached his publisher Quirk Books with some photographs to turn into a narrative. In 2012 he published another book inspired by old photographs, called Talking Pictures, and eventually followed Miss Peregrine's Home with two sequels: Hollow City in 2014 and Library of Souls in 2015.

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Books by Ransom Riggs:

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Guest 5 years ago

issa good book i love the book not only for the plot but the emotional depth to the characters in the story :D

Guest 7 years ago

This guy looks like the guy from 3 nights at the pizza house and in the store of the shuted home of the picked children of the last connections,

Guest 8 years ago

I love this man, you can see how kind and intelligent he is while reading the books. My favorite series., each book was better and better! I can't wait for future books of his - possibly the first author I wanted to really meet - not only because of how thoughtfully he writes his female characters, but also all the injustices he portrays in his story.

I hope he doesn't end up actually being a KKK misogynist man.

Guest 7 years ago

Dude chill out

Guest 8 years ago

Edit: I also want to meet him because the way he writes makes him sound like such a kind person. I'm in want of kind people ;).

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