British-born Neil Gaiman is the 2009 Newbery Award winner for his novel, The Graveyard Book.

He has authored dozens of comic books, novels, graphic novels, screenplays and children’s books. One of the most honored and popular writers in America, he is a multiple winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards, the Locus Award, the Eisner Comic Industry Award, and the British Fantasy Award. “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”—a single issue of his renowned Sandman series—won a World Fantasy Award in 1991, the first comic ever to win a literary prize.

Neil Gaiman began working in comic books in the mid-1980s and soon gained recognition for The Sandman, which he later developed into a wildly successful string of graphic novels. Norman Mailer called Sandman “a comic strip for intellectuals,” and The Los Angeles Times called the series, “the greatest epic in the history of comic books.”

He followed up with a number of notable comics including Books of Magic and Miracleman, but would garner an even wider audience with the highly popular novels, Neverwhere (1997), Stardust (1999), American Gods (2001), and Anansi Boys (2005).

Gaiman has collaborated on a number of children’s books including The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish (1997) and The Wolves in the Walls (2003), both with illustrator Dave McKean, The Dangerous Alphabet (2008), with Gris Grimly, and Odd and the Frost Giants (2009) with Brett Helquist. Coraline, his 2002 fantasy/horror novel for young adults, has been re-introduced as a graphic novel as well as a stop-motion animated feature film.

In addition to his books and other publications, Neil Gaiman is an avid blogger and maintains an award-winning website: www.neilgaiman.com.

He currently lives near Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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