A professional writer for more than twenty years, Neil Gaiman has been one of the top writers in modern comics, and
is now a bestselling novelist. His work has appeared in translation in more than nineteen countries, and nearly
all of his novels, graphic and otherwise, have been optioned for films. He is listed in the Dictionary of
Literary Biography as one of the top ten living post-modern writers.
Gaiman was the creator/writer of the monthly cult DC Comics series, Sandman, which won Neil
nine Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, including the award for best writer four times, and three Harvey
Awards. Sandman #19 took the 1991 World Fantasy Award for best short story, making it the first comic ever
to be awarded a literary award.
His six-part fantastical TV series for the BBC, Neverwhere, was broadcast in 1996. His novel, also
called Neverwhere, and set in the same strange underground world as the television series, was released
in 1997; it appeared on a number of bestseller lists, including those of the Los Angeles Times,
the San Francisco Chronicle, and Locus.
American Gods, a novel for adults, was published in 2001 and appeared on many best-of-the-year lists,
was a New York Times bestseller in both hardcover and paperback, and won the Hugo, Nebula, SFX,
Bram Stoker, and Locus Awards.
Born and raised in England, Neil Gaiman now lives near Minneapolis, Minnesota.
