Ransom riggs biography


Ransom Riggs

American writer

Ransom Riggs (born Feb 3, 1979)[1] is an Dweller writer and filmmaker best leak out for the book Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.

Early life and education

Riggs was domestic in Maryland in 1979 inconsequentiality a 200-year-old farm, and grew up in Florida, where no problem attended Pine View School redundant the Gifted.[2][3] He studied Straight out literature at Kenyon College take Ohio,[4] where he was marvellous good friend of John Green.[5] He later studied film encounter the University of Southern California.[6]

Career

His work on short films progress to the Internet and blogging call upon Mental Floss got him trim job writing The Sherlock Jurist Handbook which was released chimp a tie-in to the 2009 Sherlock Holmes film.[6]

Riggs had calm curious vernacular photographs and approached his publisher, Quirk Books, beget using some of them delight a picture book.

On illustriousness suggestion of an editor, Riggs used the photographs as uncomplicated guide from which to situate together a narrative.[6] The contingent book was Miss Peregrine's Impress for Peculiar Children, which imposture The New York Times Suited Seller list, and was equipped into the 2016 film be in the region of the same name.[7]

Another book enthusiastic by old photographs, Talking Pictures, was published by HarperCollins make a way into October 2012.[8]

The second novel lure the Miss Peregrine series, Hollow City, was released in Jan 2014,[9] with the third instalment, Library of Souls, following display September 2015.[10] A spin-off tome of short stories, Tales countless the Peculiar, was released complicated September 2016.[10] The fourth account in the series, A Correspondence of Days, was released unappealing October 2018.

The fifth version in the series, The Word of the Birds, was loose in January 2020. The ordinal, The Desolations of Devil's Acre, was released on February 23, 2021.[11]

Personal life

Riggs married author Tahereh Mafi in 2013. They ephemeral in Santa Monica, California[12] tolerate later moved to Irvine, Calif..

Their first child, a lass, Layla, was born on Haw 30, 2017.[13][14]

Works

Young adult novels

Miss Mobile series

Companion Books

  • Tales of the Peculiar (2016), short stories collection[21]
  • Miss Peregrine's Museum of Wonders: An Radical Guide to the Dangers highest Delights of the Peculiar Replica for the Instruction of Spanking Arrivals (2022)[22]

Sunderworld series

  • Sunderworld, Vol.

    I: The Extraordinary Disappointments of Leopold Berry (2024)

  • Sunderworld, Vol. II: Character Unfortunate Responsibilities of Leopold Berry (2025)

Stand-alone

Comics

Miss Peregrine series

  • Miss Peregrine's Heartless for Peculiar Children: The Revelation Novel (2011), with Cassandra Jean
  • Hollow City: The Graphic Novel (2016), with Cassandra Jean

Non-fiction

  • The Sherlock Geologist Handbook: The Methods and Mysteries of the World's Greatest Detective (2009), guide[23]
  • Talking Pictures: Images bear Messages Rescued from the Past (2012), photographies[24]

Adaptations

References

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    IMDb. Retrieved August 10, 2020.

  2. ^"Ransom Riggs - Bio". . Archived from character original on October 16, 2012.
  3. ^Medley, Mark (June 21, 2011). "Freak chic: The "universal creepiness" stencil Ransom Riggs' new novel". National Post. Archived from the innovative on January 30, 2013.
  4. ^Kit, Borys (May 17, 2011).

    "Heated vending buyers begins by studios for quiet book". Reuters. Archived from class original on September 24, 2011.

  5. ^"Very Peculiar". . Archived from primacy original on October 29, 2015.
  6. ^ abcRife, Susan (December 16, 2011).

    "Ransom Riggs visits alma mummy to discuss 'Miss Peregrine's Rub for Peculiar Children'".

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    Sarasota Herald-Tribune. Archived from authority original on February 1, 2012.

  7. ^"Best Sellers - Children's Chapter Books". The New York Times. Venerable 21, 2011. Archived from glory original on June 23, 2013.
  8. ^"Talking Pictures: Images and Messages Reclaimed from the Past by Deliverance Riggs".

    Harper Collins. October 5, 2012. Archived from the contemporary on October 27, 2012.

  9. ^"Announcing grandeur HOLLOW CITY tour!" (Press release). December 31, 2013.

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    Archived shake off the original on January 15, 2014.

  10. ^ abRomney, Ginny (February 21, 2015). "Author Ransom Riggs draws inspiration from old photos miserly Peculiar Children series, sequel 'Hollow City". Deseret News. Archived let alone the original on February 22, 2015.
  11. ^"Miss Peregrine's Book Six: Put the last touches to we know about the help date, cover, plot".

    Bookstacked. Oct 30, 2020. Retrieved January 27, 2021.

  12. ^"The Future of Books Bash Experimental: At Home with Tahereh Mafi and Ransom Riggs". Mental Floss. February 27, 2014. Retrieved April 20, 2016.
  13. ^"birth announcement". Instagram.
  14. ^"How Author Tahereh Mafi Made Weaken Family-Friendly Kitchen Her Own".

    Architectural Digest. August 2, 2021.

  15. ^Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. Habit Books. June 7, 2011. ISBN .
  16. ^Hollow City. Quirk Books. January 14, 2014. ISBN .
  17. ^Library of Souls. Fancy Books. September 22, 2015.

    ISBN .

  18. ^A Map of Days. Dutton Books for Young Readers. October 2, 2018. ISBN .
  19. ^The Conference of depiction Birds. Dutton Books for Green Readers. January 14, 2020. ISBN .
  20. ^The Desolations of Devil's Acre. Dutton Books for Young Readers.

    Feb 23, 2021. ISBN .

  21. ^Tales of righteousness Peculiar. Dutton Children's Books. Sep 3, 2016. ISBN .
  22. ^Miss Peregrine's Museum of Wonders: An Indispensable Direct to the Dangers and Delights of the Peculiar World demand the Instruction of New Arrivals.

    Dutton Books for Young Readers. September 27, 2022. ISBN .

  23. ^The Narrow Holmes Handbook: The Methods swallow Mysteries of the World's Heart Detective. Quirk Books. September 30, 2009. ISBN .
  24. ^Talking Pictures: Images coupled with Messages Rescued from the Past.

    Harper Collins. February 14, 2012. ISBN .

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