Coraline, The Sandman, and The Graveyard Book are just a few of the wonderful stories that sprang from the mind of the very talented, very unique mind of Hugo award winning author Neil Gaiman.

Neil Gaiman was born on November 10th, 1960 in Portchester, England. His dad was a retailer and his mother a pharmacist. His early life was marked by his religious beliefs, made up of a mixture of Scientology and Judaism. Gaiman was an avid reader, with The Lord of The Rings and The Chronicles of Narnia among his early favorites. Gaiman’s family’s religious beliefs kept him out of many of the top schools in England.

In the early 1980′s, Gaiman began his writing career by doing interviews and writing book reviews, eventually working his way up to short stories. He stepped up to a full length book in 1984 with a biography of Duran Duran. He teamed up with Alan Moore and did some work for Eclipse Comics before the company went bankrupt.

In 1988 Gaiman launched the wildly successful comic book, The Sandman. It ran until 1996. Gaiman has worked on many different comic books, including a Batman story in 2009 titled “whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader”.

Gaiman also has remained busy writing novels and screen plays.