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| Born | February 3, 1979 Maryland, U.S. |
| Occupation | Author |
| Alma mater | Kenyon College University of Southern California |
| Genre | Children's literature |
| Notable works | Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children |
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| Children | 1 |
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Ransom Riggs (born February 3, 1979) [1] 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. [2] [3] He studied English literature at Kenyon College in Ohio, [4] where he was a good friend of John Green. [5] He later studied film at the University of Southern California. [6]
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. [6]
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. [6] 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. [7]
Another book inspired by old photographs, Talking Pictures, was published by HarperCollins in October 2012. [8]
The second novel in the Miss Peregrine series, Hollow City , was released in January 2014, [9] with the third installment, Library of Souls , following in September 2015. [10] A spin-off book of short stories, Tales of the Peculiar, was released in September 2016. [10] 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. The sixth, The Desolations of Devil's Acre, was released on February 23, 2021. [11]
Riggs married author Tahereh Mafi in 2013. They lived in Santa Monica, California [12] and later moved to Irvine, California. Their first child, a daughter, Layla, was born on May 30, 2017. [13] [14]
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