Neil Gaiman Biography – Wiki
Neil Gaiman is an English Author of Short Fiction, Novels, Comic Books, Graphic Novels, Nonfiction, Audio Theatre, and Films. Gaiman works include the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book.
Neil Gaiman Age| Birthday | D.O.B
He is 58 years old as of 2020, he was born on 10 November 1960, Portchester, United Kingdom. He celebrates his birthday on November 10 every year. He will be 59 years old on 10 November 2020.
Neil Gaiman Height and Weight
He stands at a height of around 1.88m.
Neil Gaiman Education
Gaiman was educated at several Church of England schools, including Fonthill School in East Grinstead, Ardingly College (1970–74), and Whitgift School in Croydon (1974–77). His father’s position as a public relations official of the Church of Scientology was the cause of the seven-year-old Gaiman being forced to withdraw from Fonthill School and remain at the school that he had previously been attending.
Neil Gaiman Family
Gaiman family is of Polish Jewish and other Eastern European Jewish origins. His great-grandfather emigrated from Antwerp, Belgium, to the UK before 1914 and his grandfather eventually settled in the south of England in the Hampshire city of Portsmouth and established a chain of grocery stores. Gaiman’s grandfather changed his original family name of Chairman to Gaiman. His father, David Bernard Gaiman, worked in the same chain of stores, his mother, Sheila Gaiman, was a pharmacist. He has two younger sisters, Claire and Lizzy.
Neil Gaiman Wife
He met his first wife, Mary McGrath, with whom he has three children while she was studying Scientology and living in a house in East Grinstead that was owned by his father. The couple were married in 1985 and late divorced.
Gaiman is married to songwriter and performer Amanda Palmer, with whom he has an open marriage. The couple announced that they were dating in June 2009, and announced their engagement on Twitter on 1 January 2010. On 16 November 2010, Palmer hosted a non-legally binding flash mob wedding for Gaiman’s birthday in New Orleans. They were legally married on 2 January 2011.
The wedding took place in the parlor of writers Ayelet Waldman and Michael Chabon. On marrying Palmer, he took her middle name, MacKinnon, as one of his names. In September 2015, they had a son. In May 2020, Palmer announced their separation. Gaiman confirmed that they were having relationship difficulties, Gaiman relocated to the UK, and Palmer continued to stay in New Zealand.
Neil Gaiman Children
He has four children namely; Anthony Gaiman, Holly Gaiman, Maddy Gaiman, and Michael Gaiman.
Neil Gaiman Facts and Body Measurements
Here are some interesting facts you don’t want to miss about Neil Gaiman
- Full Name: Neil Richard Gaiman
- Age/ How Old?: 58 years old
- Date of Birth: 10 November 1960,
- Place of Birth: Portchester, United Kingdom.
- Education: he was educated at several Church of England schools, including Fonthill School in East Grinstead, Ardingly College (1970–74), and Whitgift School in Croydon (1974–77).
- Birthday: 10 November
- Nationality: English – British
- Father’s Name: David Bernard Gaiman
- Mother’s Name: Sheila Gaiman
- Siblings: Lizzy Calcioli and Claire Edwards Sheila Gaiman
- Married?: Yes
- Children/ Kids: Four
- Height/ How tall?: 1.88m.
- Weight: Average
- Profession: Author
- Net worth: $18 million dollars
Neil Gaiman Latest Books
- American Gods
- Coraline
- Good Omens
- Norse Mythology Neil Gaiman
- stardust Gaiman
- Neverwhere
- The Graveyard Book
- The Ocean at the End of the Lane
- How to Talk to Girls at Parties
- Fragile Things
- Anansi Boys
- Snow, Glass, Apples
- Smoke and Mirrors (Gaiman book)
- Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances
- Sandman Preludes and Nocturnes
- Fortunately, the Milk
- Instructions (Neil Gaiman)
- Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World
Neil Gaiman The Sandman (Vertigo)
The Sandman is a comic book series written by Neil Gaiman and published by DC Comics. Its artists include Sam Kieth, Mike Dringenberg, Jill Thompson, Shawn McManus, Marc Hempel, and Michael Zulli, with lettering by Todd Klein and covers by Dave McKean. Beginning with issue No. 47, it was placed under the Vertigo imprint. It tells the story of Dream of the Endless, who rules over the world of dreams. The original series ran for 75 issues from January 1989 to March 1996.
The main character of The Sandman is Dream, also known as Morpheus and other names, who is one of the seven Endless. The other Endless are Destiny, Death, Desire, Despair, Delirium, and Destruction (also known as ‘The Prodigal’). The series is famous for Gaiman’s trademark use of anthropomorphic personification of various metaphysical entities, while also blending mythology and history in its horror set within the DC Universe.
The Sandman is a story about stories and how Morpheus, the Lord of Dreams, is captured and subsequently learns that sometimes change is inevitable.[2] The Sandman was Vertigo’s flagship title, and is available as a series of ten trade paperbacks, a recolored five-volume Absolute hardcover edition with slipcase, in a black-and-white Annotated edition, and is available for digital download.
Critically acclaimed, The Sandman was one of the first few graphic novels ever to be on the New York Times Best Seller list, along with Maus, Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns. It was one of five graphic novels to make Entertainment Weekly‘s “100 best reads from 1983 to 2008,” ranking at No. 46. Norman Mailer described the series as “a comic strip for intellectuals.” The series is noted for having a large influence over the fantasy genre and graphic novel medium since then.
The Sandman grew out of a proposal by Neil Gaiman to revive DC’s 1974–1976 series The Sandman, written by Joe Simon and Michael Fleisher and illustrated by Jack Kirby and Ernie Chua. Gaiman had considered including characters from the “Dream Stream” (including the Kirby Sandman, Brute, Glob, and the brothers Cain and Abel) in a scene for the first issue of his 1988 miniseries Black Orchid.
Neil Gaiman Norse Mythology Book
Norse Mythology is a 2017 book by Neil Gaiman. The book is Gaiman’s retelling of several stories from Norse mythology. These stories include the theft of Thor’s hammer, the binding of Fenrir, and other tales about the Aesir. The book received positive reviews in The New Yorker, Washington Post, and The Times. Kirkus Reviews called it “Superb. Just the thing for the literate fantasy lover and the student of comparative religion and mythology alike.”
A ninety-minute audio adaptation was broadcast by BBC Radio 4 on Boxing Day 2018 featuring Derek Jacobi as Odin, Colin Morgan as Loki, Natalie Dormer as Freya, and Nathaniel Martello-White as Thor, with the stories narrated by Diana Rigg in the guise of an unexpected visitor (“Mrs. Njordsdottir”) keeping an inquisitive young boy company in a hospital during a blizzard. Gaiman himself was heard in a cameo role as a radio announcement. An audiobook version was released in February 2017, narrated by Gaiman.
Neil Gaiman Favourite Quotes
- The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before.
- It is a fool’s prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.
- Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.
- Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.
- Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.
- I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work, and I’d go and work my way through the children’s area.
- The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don’t have that.
- Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it’s a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed.
- We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don’t make it all bearable.
- A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.
Neil Gaiman American God
American Gods (2001) is a fantasy novel by British author Neil Gaiman. The novel is a blend of Americana, fantasy, and various strands of ancient and modern mythology, all centering on the mysterious and taciturn Shadow. The book was published in 2001 by Headline in the United Kingdom and by William Morrow in the United States. It gained a positive critical response and won the Hugo and Nebula awards in 2002.
A special tenth-anniversary edition, which includes the “author’s preferred text” and 12,000 additional words, was published in June 2011 by William Morrow. Two audio versions of the book were produced and published by Harper Audio: an unabridged version of the original published edition, read by George Guidall, released in 2001; a full cast audiobook version of the tenth-anniversary edition, released in 2011. In March 2017, The Folio Society published a special collector’s edition of American Gods, with many corrections to the author’s preferred text version.
In April 2017, Starz began airing a television adaptation of the novel. Bryan Fuller and Michael Green served as showrunners, and Gaiman is an executive producer. Fuller and Green departed the show after the first season.
Neil Gaiman Characters
- Shadow Moon – an ex-convict who becomes the reluctant bodyguard and errand boy of Mr. Wednesday (Odin).
- Laura Moon – Shadow’s wife, who dies in a car crash at the beginning of the novel, a few days before Shadow is due to be released from prison.
- Samantha “Sam” Black Crow – a hitchhiking college student whom Shadow meets during his journey.
- Chad Mulligan – a kind-hearted chief of police in the town of Lakeside.
Neil Gaiman Graveyard Book
The Graveyard Book is a young adult fantasy novel by the English author Neil Gaiman, simultaneously published in Britain and America in 2008. The Graveyard Book traces the story of the boy Nobody “Bod” Owens who is adopted and reared by the supernatural occupants of a graveyard after his family is brutally murdered.
Gaiman won both the British Carnegie Medal and the American Newbery Medal recognizing the year’s best children’s books, the first time both named the same work. The Graveyard Book also won the annual Hugo Award for Best Novel from the World Science Fiction Convention and Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book selected by Locus magazine subscribers.
Chris Riddell, who illustrated the British children’s edition, made the Kate Greenaway Medal shortlist. It was the first time in the award’s 30-year history that one book made both the author and illustrator shortlists. Time magazine included the novel in its list of the 100 Best Young-Adult Books of All Time.
Each of the eight chapters is a short story, each set two years apart as the protagonist grows up. Some chapters have analogues to Rudyard Kipling’s 1894 work; for example, the chapter “The Hounds of God” parallels the story “Kaa’s Hunting”.
Neil Gaiman Short Stories
- “Harlequin Valentine” – Free Audio at Last.FM
- “How to Talk to Girls at Parties” – Free MP3
- “Orange” (read live) – Free Video
- “Other People” (read live) – Free Video
- “The Man Who Forgot Ray Bradbury” – Free Audio
- The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains – Free Audio
- The Graveyard Book (a novel read live with illustrations) – Free Video
- “Troll Bridge” (read live, starts at 4:00 mark) – Free iTunes
- “A Study in Emerald” – Free iTunes
Neil Gaiman Awards
- 1991 Best Writer for The Sandman
- 1992 Best Writer for The Sandman
- 1993 Best Continuing or Limited Series for The Sandman
- 1999 Best Fantasy Novel (runner-up) for Stardust
- 2002 Best Fantasy Novel for American Gods
- 2003 Best Young Adult Book for Coraline
- 2004 Best Novelette for “A Study in Emerald”
- 2005 Best Short Story for “Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Nameless House of the Night of Dread Desire”
- 2006 Best Short Story for “Sunbird”
- 2007 Best Short Story for “How to Talk to Girls at Parties”
- 2007 Best Collection for Fragile Things
- 2009 Best Young Adult novel for The Graveyard Book
- 2010 Best Short Story for An Invocation of Incuriosity, published in Songs of the Dying Earth
Frequently Asked Questions About Neil Gaiman
Who is Neil Gaiman?
He is an English Author of Short Fiction, Novels, Comic Books, Graphic Novels, Nonfiction, Audio Theatre, and Films.
How old is Neil Gaiman?
He is an English National born on 10 November 1960, Portchester, United Kingdom.
How tall is Neil Gaiman?
He stands at a height of around 1.88m.
Is Neil Gaiman married?
Yes, he shares kids with Mary McGrath, with whom he has three children. He married to songwriter and performer Amanda Palmer, with whom he has an open marriage. The couple announced that they were dating in June 2009, and announced their engagement on Twitter on 1 January 2010. On 16 November 2010, Palmer hosted a non-legally binding flash mob wedding for Gaiman’s birthday in New Orleans. They were legally married on 2 January 2011. The wedding took place in the parlor of writers Ayelet Waldman and Michael Chabon. On marrying Palmer, he took her middle name, MacKinnon, as one of his names. In September 2015, they had a son.
How much is Neil Gaiman worth?
He has enjoyed a long career in the art industry. Through proceeds from his work as an Author, he has been able to accumulate a modest fortune. Neil is estimated to have a net worth of about $ $18 million.
Where does Neil live?
Because of security reasons, he has not shared his precise location of residence. We will immediately update this information if we get the location and images of his house.
Is Neil dead or alive?
He is alive and in good health. There have been no reports of him being sick or having any health-related issues.
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