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| Born | February 3, 1979 Maryland, U.S. |
| Occupation | Author |
| Alma mater | Kenyon College (BA) University of Southern California (MFA) |
| 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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Shatter Me is a young adult dystopian romantic thriller written by Tahereh Mafi, published on November 15, 2011. The book is narrated by Juliette, a 17-year-old girl with a lethal touch and is unusual in that it contains passages and lines that have been crossed out like a diary entry. Shatter Me is the first of a series of seven books. The second book in the series, Unravel Me, was published on February 5, 2013. The third book, Ignite Me, was published on February 4, 2014. The fourth book, Restore Me, was published on March 6, 2018. The fifth book, Defy Me, was published on April 2, 2019. The sixth book, Imagine Me, was published on March 31, 2020. The seventh and final book, Believe Me, was published on November 11, 2021.
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Library of Souls is a sequel to 2014 novel Hollow City written by Ransom Riggs and third book in the series of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. It was released on September 22, 2015 by Quirk Books.
A Map of Days is a sequel to 2015 novel Library of Souls written by Ransom Riggs and fourth book in the series of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. It was released on October 2, 2018 by Dutton Books for Young Readers. This is the fourth book in the series and the first installment of a new trilogy set in the United States; it features the main protagonists from the original trilogy as well as introducing several new key characters.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Holmes is a Sherlock Holmes pastiche novel by Loren D. Estleman, originally published in 1979.
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