Ransom riggs author biography website
Ransom riggs author biography website
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Ransom Riggs
American writer
Ransom Riggs (born February 3, )[1] is an American writer and filmmaker best known for the book Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.
Early life and education
Riggs was born in Maryland in on a year-old farm, and grew up in Florida, where he attended Pine View School for the Gifted.[2][3] He studied English literature at Kenyon College in Ohio,[4] where he was a good friend of John Green.[5] He later studied film at the University of Southern California.[6]
Career
His work on short films for the Internet and blogging for Mental Floss got him a job writing The Sherlock Holmes Handbook which was released as a tie-in to the Sherlock Holmes film.[6]
Riggs had collected curious vernacular photographs and approached his publisher, Quirk Books, about using some of them in a picture book.
On the suggestion of an editor, Riggs used the photographs as a guide from