Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman · Arts & Literature
Author of The Sandman, American Gods, Coraline and Good Omens; first writer to win the Newbery and Carnegie medals for the same book
10 November 1960, Portchester, Hampshire, England
United Kingdom
Neil Gaiman is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Author of The Sandman, American Gods, Coraline and Good Omens; first writer to win the Newbery and Carnegie medals for the same book
Neil Gaiman is a British author whose comic-book series 'The Sandman' (1989-1996) showed that comics could carry literary ambition, and whose novels — 'American Gods', 'Coraline', 'The Graveyard Book', 'Stardust' — reached readers far beyond that world; 'Good Omens' was written with Terry Pratchett. He is the first writer to win both the Newbery and the Carnegie medals for the same book. His family is of Polish-Jewish and other Ashkenazi origin, and his great-grandfather came to England from Antwerp before 1914; the family name was changed from Chaiman to Gaiman.
Gaiman names Judaism as his family's religion, and one of his sisters has described growing up saying 'I'm a Jewish Scientologist.'
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Author of The Sandman, American Gods, Coraline and Good Omens; first writer to win the Newbery and Carnegie medals for the same book
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