Background
Ransom Riggs was born on February 3, 1979, in Maryland on a 200-year-old farm, and grew up in Florida.
Ransom Riggs
Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, United States
Riggs studied English literature at Kenyon College.
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States
Riggs attended the University of Southern California where he studied film.
2013
Ransom Riggs with one of his fans.
2014
Ransom Riggs is after two and a half years of writing, revising, photo-collecting, sweating, and waiting, it's finally done. Hollow City hits shelves.
2014
Ransom Riggs is presenting his novel.
2016
Ransom Riggs
Ransom Riggs, an American writer and novelist.
Ransom Riggs
Ransom Riggs at home in Santa Monica, Calif. Old photographs of strangers inspire his novels.Credit... Stephanie Diani for The New York Times
2013
Ransom Riggs with one of his fans.
2014
Ransom Riggs is after two and a half years of writing, revising, photo-collecting, sweating, and waiting, it's finally done. Hollow City hits shelves.
2014
Ransom Riggs is presenting his novel.
2016
Ransom Riggs
Ransom Riggs, an American writer and novelist.
Ransom Riggs
Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, United States
Riggs studied English literature at Kenyon College.
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States
Riggs attended the University of Southern California where he studied film.
Ransom Riggs at home in Santa Monica, Calif. Old photographs of strangers inspire his novels.Credit... Stephanie Diani for The New York Times
Tahereh Mafi is an Iranian-American, New York Times and USA Today best selling author.
(Each image in Talking Pictures reveals a singular, frozen...)
Each image in Talking Pictures reveals a singular, frozen moment in a person’s life, be it joyful, quiet, or steeped in sorrow. Yet the book’s unique depth comes from the writing accompanying each photo: as with the caption revealing how one seemingly random snapshot of a dancing couple captured the first dance of their 40-year marriage, each successive inscription shines like a flashbulb illuminating a photograph’s particular context and lighting up our connection to the past.
https://www.amazon.com/Talking-Pictures-Images-Messages-Rescued/dp/0062099493/?tag=2022091-20
2012
(As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixtee...)
As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason.
https://www.amazon.com/Miss-Peregrines-Home-Peculiar-Children/dp/1594746036/?tag=2022091-20
2013
(Ten peculiar children flee an army of deadly monsters. An...)
Ten peculiar children flee an army of deadly monsters. And only one person can help them - but she’s trapped in the body of a bird. The extraordinary journey that began in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children continues as Jacob Portman and his newfound friends' journey to London, the peculiar capital of the world. There, they hope to find a cure for their beloved headmistress, Miss Peregrine. But in this war-torn city, hideous surprises lurk around every corner. And before Jacob can deliver the peculiar children to safety, he must make an important decision about his love for Emma Bloom.
https://www.amazon.com/Hollow-City-Peregrines-Peculiar-Children/dp/1594747350/?tag=2022091-20
2015
(A boy with extraordinary powers. An army of deadly monste...)
A boy with extraordinary powers. An army of deadly monsters. An epic battle for the future of peculiardom. The adventure that began with Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children and continued in Hollow City comes to a thrilling conclusion with the Library of Souls. As the story opens, sixteen-year-old Jacob discovers a powerful new ability, and soon he’s diving through history to rescue his peculiar companions from a heavily guarded fortress.
https://www.amazon.com/Library-Souls-Peregrines-Peculiar-Children/dp/1594749310/?tag=2022091-20
2017
(Wealthy cannibals who dine on the discarded limbs of pecu...)
Wealthy cannibals who dine on the discarded limbs of peculiars. A fork-tongued princess. These are but a few of the truly brilliant stories in Tales of the Peculiar - the collection of fairy tales known to hide information about the peculiar world, including clues to the locations of time loops - first introduced by Ransom Riggs in his #1 bestselling Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children series.
https://www.amazon.com/Tales-Peculiar-Ransom-Riggs/dp/0399538542/?tag=2022091-20
2017
(Having defeated the monstrous threat that nearly destroye...)
Having defeated the monstrous threat that nearly destroyed the peculiar world, Jacob Portman is back where his story began, in Florida. Except now Miss Peregrine, Emma, and their peculiar friends are with him and doing their best to blend in. But carefree days of beach visits and normalling lessons are soon interrupted by a discovery - a subterranean bunker that belonged to Jacob’s grandfather, Abe. Clues to Abe’s double-life as a peculiar operative start to emerge, secrets long hidden in plain sight. And Jacob begins to learn about the dangerous legacy he has inherited - truths that were part of him long before he walked into Miss Peregrine’s time loop.
https://www.amazon.com/Days-Miss-Peregrines-Peculiar-Children/dp/0735231494/?tag=2022091-20
2019
(Now, with enemies behind him and the unknown ahead, Jacob...)
Now, with enemies behind him and the unknown ahead, Jacob Portman’s story continues as he takes a brave leap forward into The Conference of the Birds, the next installment of the beloved, bestselling Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children series.
https://www.amazon.com/Conference-Birds-Peregrines-Peculiar-Children/dp/0735231508/?tag=2022091-20
2020
Ransom Riggs was born on February 3, 1979, in Maryland on a 200-year-old farm, and grew up in Florida.
Riggs attended the Pine View School for the Gifted in Florida. Then he studied English literature at Kenyon College and attended the University of Southern California. Ransom Riggs holds a Master of Fine Arts in film production from the USC School of Cinema-Television.
Riggs's 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 2009 Sherlock Holmes film. 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 which to put together a narrative.
The resulting book was Mission Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children which made The New York Times Best Seller list.
Another book inspired by old photographs, Talking Pictures was published by Harper Collins in October 2012. The sequel Hollow City: The Second Novel of Mission Peregrine's Children was released on January 14, 2014.
The third installment in the Mission Peregrine's series, titled Library of Souls, was announced in early 2015. The lieutenant was released on September 22, 2015.
Riggs's major achievement was in becoming the author of the runaway New York Times bestseller Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. A former journalist, photographer, and documentary film editor, his award-winning short films have screened at more than 70 film festivals worldwide. He is also a contributing writer and blogger for mental_floss magazine and its website. Renowned director Tim Burton brought Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children to the silver screen in 2016.
(Now, with enemies behind him and the unknown ahead, Jacob...)
2020(As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixtee...)
2013(Having defeated the monstrous threat that nearly destroye...)
2019(Each image in Talking Pictures reveals a singular, frozen...)
2012(Wealthy cannibals who dine on the discarded limbs of pecu...)
2017(Ten peculiar children flee an army of deadly monsters. An...)
2015(A boy with extraordinary powers. An army of deadly monste...)
2017The phenomenon that was Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children - a dark and quirky debut novel by Ransom Riggs about children with extraordinary powers, constructed around vintage photographs that Riggs had collected at flea markets - resonated with readers of all ages and was one of the best-selling novels of 2011.
Quotations:
"I like to tell stories. Sometimes I tell them with words, sometimes with pictures, often with both. I grew up on a farm on the Eastern shore of Maryland and also in a little house by the beach in Englewood, Florida."
"I usually find the “what inspired you” question tough to answer, because my brain is a dark and twisting alley and who knows what goes on in there, but in this case, I have a very specific answer: old snapshots. Back in 2009, I started collecting old snapshots that I found at swap meets and flea markets, and after a while, it occurred to me that the strange-looking people in the photos I loved most might find their way into a book. So I showed them to a book editor I had worked with (on the Sherlock Holmes Handbook) and he suggested I write a novel and weave the pictures through the story. As I had never written a novel before, I thought he was a little nuts, taking a chance like that on me, but I was excited by the idea and went off to cook up the story of Miss Peregrine and her peculiarly-abled wards - and to collect lots more peculiar photographs, many of which ended up in the book and its sequel, Hollow City."
When Ransom once got a camera for Christmas in his childhood, he became obsessed with photography, and when he was a little older his friends and he came into possession of a half-broken video camera and began to make their own movies, starring themselves, using their bedrooms and backyards for sets.
He also enjoys traveling to exotic lands and complaining about the heat.
These days Ransom Riggs makes his home in Los Angeles with his wife, fellow novelist Tahereh Mafi, whom he married in 2013. Their first child, a daughter, was born on May 30, 2017.
