Sometimes, when he was smaller, people used to tell Neil Gaiman not to make things up. He never listened. Now he’s written over twenty books, been given dozens of awards, many of them astonishingly ugly. He’s written television drama and for movies, and for comics. He’s even written “non-fiction” which he learned is only marginally less made-up than the fiction. Sometimes he thinks about finding some of those people who warned him of all the awful things that would happen if he kept making things up, and finding out if it’s happened yet, or is still going to happen, and whether he should buy a tin hat and thick boots for protection. In the meantime, he grows pumpkins and keeps on making things up.
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Neil Gaiman is the author of several books for children, including the New York Times bestselling Coraline; the collection of short stories for young readers M Is for Magic; and InterWorld, co-authored with Michael Reaves. His picture books include The Wolves in the Walls and
The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish, illustrated by Dave McKean, and
The Dangerous Alphabet, illustrated by Gris Grimly.
He wrote the script for the film MirrorMask and is also the author of nationally bestselling, critically acclaimed, and award-winning novels and short stories for adults as well as the Sandman series of graphic novels and other graphic novels, including the graphic novel adaptation of Coraline.
Among his many awards are the World Fantasy Award, the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, and the Bram Stoker Award. 
Gaiman's work has appeared in translation in dozens of countries around the world. His journalism has appeared in Wired, Time Out London, The London Sunday Times, Punch, The Observer Colour Supplement, and has reviewed books for the New York Times Book Review and the Washington Post Bookworld
Tori Amos sings about Neil on her albums "Little Earthquakes", "Under the Pink", "Boys for Pele", and "Scarlet's Walk”; and he's written songs for the Minneapolis band The Flash Girls ("the find of the year and perhaps beyond" -- Utne Reader), for Chris Ewen's "The Hidden Variable", and for the band One Ring Zero.
Born and raised in England, Neil Gaiman now lives near Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has somehow reached his forties and still tends to need a haircut.