Author
Neil Gaiman
Birth Date
November 10, 1960
(65 Years)
Associated Country
United Kingdom
Neil Gaiman is a British author, screenwriter, and graphic novelist known for his imaginative storytelling and contributions to fantasy literature, comics, and children's fiction. Raised in England, he began his career as a journalist before turning to fiction, where he quickly gained recognition for blending mythology, folklore, history, and contemporary life into richly imaginative narratives. His work is characterized by its inventive world-building, memorable characters, and exploration of the boundary between the ordinary and the fantastic.
Gaiman has written across a wide range of formats, including novels, short stories, graphic novels, screenplays, and works for younger readers. His stories often draw on myths and legends from various cultures while exploring themes of identity, belief, memory, and the power of storytelling itself. This versatility has allowed him to reach audiences across multiple generations and genres.
Over the course of his career, Gaiman's works have received numerous literary awards and have been adapted for film, television, theatre, and audio. Widely regarded as one of the most influential contemporary fantasy writers, he has played a significant role in bringing fantasy and graphic storytelling to a broader mainstream audience.
Gaiman has written across a wide range of formats, including novels, short stories, graphic novels, screenplays, and works for younger readers. His stories often draw on myths and legends from various cultures while exploring themes of identity, belief, memory, and the power of storytelling itself. This versatility has allowed him to reach audiences across multiple generations and genres.
Over the course of his career, Gaiman's works have received numerous literary awards and have been adapted for film, television, theatre, and audio. Widely regarded as one of the most influential contemporary fantasy writers, he has played a significant role in bringing fantasy and graphic storytelling to a broader mainstream audience.
Books
Shadow Moon, fresh out of jail, finds his wife dead, his life in shambles, and nowhere to turn. But a chance meeting with the mysterious Mr. Wednesday thrusts him into the center of a conflict between...
American Gods 2020
The Moment of the Storm
American Gods (Graphic Novel), Book 3
The new and old gods agree to meet in the center of America to exchange the body of the old gods' fallen leader—heading towards the inevitable god war in this final arc to the bestselling comic...
American Gods 2019
My Ainsel
American Gods (Graphic Novel), Book 2
Shadow and Wednesday leave the House on the Rock and continue their journey across the country, where they set up aliases, meet new gods, and prepare for war.
American Gods 2018
Shadows
American Gods (Graphic Novel), Book 1
Shadow Moon gets out of jail only to discover his wife is dead. Defeated, broke, and uncertain where to go from here, he meets the mysterious Mr. Wednesday, who employs him to serve as his...
Bod is an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual place—he's the only living resident of a graveyard. Raised from infancy by the ghosts, werewolves, and other cemetery denizens, Bod has learned the...
The Graveyard Book 2014
No longer a small child, Bod Owens begins to feel the pull of the world beyond the graveyard. As he ventures further from the only home he has ever known, he faces new dangers—human and otherwise—and...
The Graveyard Book 2014
After a brutal murder leaves his family dead, a toddler wanders into a nearby graveyard—and is taken in by its ghostly inhabitants. Renamed Nobody “Bod” Owens, he is raised among the dead, protected...
A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he...
The Sandman 2012
The Wake
The Sandman, Book 10
In the final Sandman tale, Morpheus made the ultimate decision between change and death. As one journey for the Endless ends another begins for the Lord of Dreams and his family. All the final pieces...
The Sandman 2012
The Kindly Ones
The Sandman, Book 9
In the longest Sandman story, Morpheus becomes the prey of the Furies, avenging spirits who torment those who spill family blood. A journey both begins and ends for the Lord of Dreams as threads and...
The Sandman 2012
World's End
The Sandman, Book 8
Reminiscent of the legendary Canterbury Tales, THE SANDMAN: WORLDS' END is a wonderful potpourri of engrossing tales and masterly storytelling. Improbably caught in a June blizzard, two wayward...
The Sandman 2011
Brief Lives
The Sandman, Book 7
Older and more powerful than the gods themselves, the Endless are a dysfunctional family of cosmic beings that have ruled over the realms of dream, desire, despair, destiny, destruction, death, and...
The Sandman 2011
Fables & Reflections
The Sandman, Book 6
The critically acclaimed THE SANDMAN: FABLES AND REFLECTIONS continues the fantastical epic of Morpheus, the King of Dreams, as he observes and interacts with an odd assortment of historical and...
The Sandman 2011
A Game of You
The Sandman, Book 5
Take an apartment house, add in a drag queen, a lesbian couple, some talking animals, a talking severed head, a confused heroine and the deadly Cuckoo. Stir vigorously with a hurricane and Morpheus...
The Sandman 2011
Season of Mists
The Sandman, Book 4
Ten thousand years ago, Morpheus condemned a woman who loved him to Hell. Now the other members of his immortal family, The Endless, have convinced the Dream King that this was an injustice. To make...
The Sandman 2010
Preludes & Nocturnes
The Sandman, Book 1
An occultist attempting to capture the physical embodiment of Death to bargain for eternal life traps her younger brother Dream instead. After his seventy-year imprisonment and eventual escape, Dream,...
The Sandman 2010
The Doll's House
The Sandman, Book 2
During Morpheus's incarceration, three dreams escaped the Dreaming and are now loose in the waking world. At the same time, a young woman named Rose Walker is searching for her little brother. As...
The Sandman 2010
Dream Country
The Sandman, Book 3
The third book of the Sandman collection is a series of four short comic book stories. In each of these otherwise unrelated stories, Morpheus serves only as a minor character. Here we meet the mother...
The Graveyard Book 2008
Bod is an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual place—he's the only living resident of a graveyard. Raised from infancy by the ghosts, werewolves, and other cemetery denizens, Bod has learned the...
Anansi Boys 2008
“Fat” Charlie Nancy’s safe, normal existence ended the moment his father dropped dead on a karaoke stage in Florida. There were many things about his father Charlie didn’t know. Like how his dad was a...
Stardust 2006
In the sleepy English countryside of decades past, there is a town that has stood on a jut of granite for six hundred years. And immediately to the east stands a high stone wall, for which the village...
Good Omens 2006
According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (the world's only completely accurate book of prophecies, written in 1655, before she exploded), the world will end on a Saturday....
Coraline 2002
When Coraline steps through a door to find another house strangely similar to her own (only better), things seem marvelous.
But there's another mother there, and another father, and they want her to...
American Gods 2001
Locked behind bars for three years, Shadow did his time, quietly waiting for the magic day when he could return to Eagle Point, Indiana. A man no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring, all he...
Neverwhere 1998
Richard Mayhew is a young businessman with a good heart and a dull job. When he stops one day to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk, his life is forever altered, for he finds himself...