Coraline's Creator

Neil Gaiman, the author of Coraline, was born in Hampshire, UK in 1960. He grew up with a great and strong love for books. He described himself as a,"feral child who was raised in libraries," and credits the librarians of his youth for "fostering a life-long love of reading." and goes further to say "I wouldn't be who I am without libraries." Later in his life he was married to Mary McGrath, with whom he had 3 kids, Madeleine, Holly, and Michael. The family finally migrated to the United States in 1992. Gaiman had created Coraline and had the children's novel published ten years later in 2002. He's created many best-sellers over the years like Stardust, The Graveyard Book, American Gods, and many more. He has also been awarded a great deal of rewards and honors from Newbery to Hugos throughout the years. To learn more about Neil Gaiman and his own story, his website is a great source for this information.

"You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it."

  - Neil Gaiman