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Multiple award-winning author Neil Gaiman is listed along with Thomas Pynchon and William Burroughs as one of the "Top Ten Post Modern Writers in America" by the Dictionary of Literary Biography and is considered "a little intimidating" by Stephen King. Neil Gaiman became a cult hero with his immensely popular Sandman graphic novel series. Hailed by Norman Mailer as "a comic strip for intellectuals," Sandman sold over a million copies a year, and issue #19 took the 1991 World Fantasy Award for best short story ... making it the first comic ever to be awarded a literary award. With the 1997 Avon Books publication of Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman made the leap from graphic visionary to novelist. Neverwhere was the "thrilling" (USA Today) underground bestseller of 1997, reaching #3 and # 9 respectively on the Los Angeles Times and San Francisco Chronicle best seller lists. Neverwhere was also Booklist's "Editor's Choice Book for 1997" and is soon to be a major motion picture from Jim Henson Productions.
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During the course of a fifteen-year writing career, Neil Gaiman has been one of the top writers in modern comics and a best-selling novelist. As creator/writer of the DC Comics fantasy series The Sandman, he won every major award in the field and, in addition won the 1991 World Fantasy Award for best short story (making The Sandman #19 the first comic ever to win a literary award). His short story collection Angels and Visitations won the 1994 international Horror Critics' Guild Award as Best Collection. Equally acclaimed have been his novels Good Omens co-written with Terry Pratchett), Stardust and Neverwhere, an adaptation of Gaiman's hit BBC television series. Recently Gaiman released another collection of short stories, Smoke & Mirrors, and wrote the English language screenplay for the record-breaking Japanese film Princess Mononoke. Of his shorter comics works, he is proudest of Mr Punch.
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In 1985, Neil Gaiman co-edited Ghastly Beyond Belief, an amusing collection of bad bits and pieces from science fiction novels and films. He wrote Don't Panic, a biography of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy author Douglas Adams. He's mostly famous, though, for writing comic books as serious literature. His first was Violent Cases (1987; drawn by Dave McKean). His most famous work is the Sandman series, a collection of interwoven and allusion-filled horror tales that started as a DC comic book and ended up a series of lush, best-selling graphic novels. Norman Mailer called it "a comic strip for intellectuals", and Sandman #19 won the World Fantasy Award for best short story of 1991 -- the first and so far only comic book to win.
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Neil Gaiman is ready to sprinkle some "Stardust" in theaters this weekend, as the first movie adaptation of the famed sci-fi/fantasy author's work arrives on the big screen. And this is just the beginning, he says. Although other adaptations of his work are coming soon (like the creepy, stop-motion "Coraline," due in 2008), Gaiman wants to do more than just hand over his stories to Hollywood — he wants to direct them too. So while he's a master in one realm, he's an intern of sorts in another, as the would-be director prepares to take on "Death," the much-anticipated offshoot of his acclaimed "Sandman" series. MTV News' Jennifer Vineyard talked with Gaiman about how Claudia Schiffer, Shia LaBeouf, Alan Moore and Tori Amos have all had an unlikely hand in his current fall to earth — and much more.
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Neil Gaiman was born and raised in England, and began his career as a journalist. He currently lives near Minneapolis, Minnesota with his wife and family. He has worked in many media forms, including print (comic books, children's books, adult fiction), film, and music.
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In 1993, Gaiman was contracted by Todd McFarlane to write a single issue of Spawn, a popular title at the newly created Image Comics company. McFarlane was promoting his new title by having guest authors Gaiman, Alan Moore, Frank Miller, and Dave Sim each write a single issue.
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