Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman (born 10 November 1960 in Portchester, Hampshire, England) is a British writer whose career spans comics, prose fiction, and screen adaptation. His breakthrough was The Sandman (1989 to 1996), a series for DC Comics blending fantasy, horror, and dark humor that became one of the publisher's best selling titles and helped establish mature-readers comics as a serious literary form. In prose fiction he wrote Good Omens (1990, with Terry Pratchett), American Gods (2001), Coraline (2002), and The Graveyard Book (2008), the last making him the only author to win both the Newbery Medal and the Carnegie Medal for the same work. Gaiman has also worked directly in screen media, co-creating television adaptations of Good Omens and The Sandman and writing episodes of Doctor Who, and has received multiple Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker awards across his body of work.