He has somehow reached his forties and still tends to need a haircut. Once the biographer of Douglas Adams and Duran Duran, he has achieved cult status in the world of Science Fiction with his award winning, unpatronising writing for young people.īorn and raised in England, Neil Gaiman now lives near Minneapolis, Minnesota. Lewis, Michael Morcock and a host of others. Norman Mailer said of Sandman: 'Along with all else, Sandman is a comic strip for intellectuals, and I say it's about time.'Ī self-confessed “feral kid who was raised in libraries”, Author of the Month Neil Gaiman, spent much of his childhood devouring the books of J.R.R. Gaiman was the creator/writer of monthly cult DC Comics horror-weird series, Sandman, which won nine Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards.

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Announcing the Children's and Young Adult Jhalak Prize Shortlistīestselling author Neil Gaiman has long been one of the top writers in modern comics, as well as writing books for readers of all ages.

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