Ransom Riggs
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Ransom Riggs is a writer and filmmaker. He was born in Marland in 1980 and attended the Pine View School for the Gifted in Florida. He studied English literature at Kenyon College and studied film at the University of Southern California. His work on short films for the Internet and blogging for mostra altro Mental Floss magazine 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 Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children which made The New York Times Best Seller list. One of his other books inspired by old photographs entitled Taking Pictures was published in 2012. Hollow City, the sequel to Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, also made The New York Times Best Seller List. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Opere di Ransom Riggs
The Sherlock Holmes Handbook: The Methods and Mysteries of the World's Greatest Detective (2009) 320 copie, 8 recensioni
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children / Hollow City / Library of Souls / Tales of the Peculiar (2015) 19 copie
Sunderworld, Vol. I: The Extraordinary Disappointments of Leopold Berry (2024) 12 copie, 1 recensione
De verwoestingen van Devil's Acre: Het zesde boek van de bijzondere kinderen van mevrouw Peregrine (2022) 2 copie
A convenção das aves (O lar da srta. Peregrine para crianças peculiares Livro 5) (Portuguese… 2 copie
A Map of Days 1 copia
Talking Pictures 1 copia
Le desolazioni di Devil's Acre. Il capitolo finale di Miss Peregrine. La casa dei ragazzi speciali (2022) 1 copia
Miss Peregrine et les enfants particuliers 3 - La Bibliothèque des âmes: Livre audio 1 CD MP3 (2018) 1 copia
A Map of Days (Preview) 1 copia
Strange Geographies 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1979-02-03
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Maryland, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Maryland, USA
Florida, USA
Los Angeles, California, USA - Istruzione
- Kenyon College (BA ∙ English ∙ 2001)
University of Southern California (film ∙ 2006)
Pine View School for the Gifted - Attività lavorative
- young adult writer
filmmaker
blogger - Relazioni
- Mafi, Tahereh (spouse)
- Organizzazioni
- MentalFloss.com
- Agente
- Kate Schafer Testerman (KT Literary)
- Breve biografia
- Ransom Riggs (born February 3, 1979) is an American writer and filmmaker best known for the book Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Riggs was born in Maryland in 1979 on a 200-year-old farm, and grew up in Florida, where he attended Pine View School for the Gifted. He studied English literature at Kenyon College, where he was a good friend of John Green. He later studied film at the University of Southern California.
His 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 Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, which made The New York Times Best Seller list, and was adapted into the 2016 film of the same name.
Another book inspired by old photographs, Talking Pictures, was published by HarperCollins in October 2012.
The second novel in the Miss Peregrine series, Hollow City, was released in January 2014, with the third installment, Library of Souls, following in September 2015. A spin-off book of short stories, Tales of the Peculiar, was released in September 2016. The fourth novel in the series, A Map of Days, was released in October 2018. The fifth novel in the series, The Conference of the Birds, was released in January 2020.
Riggs married author Tahereh Mafi in 2013. They lived in Santa Monica, California and later moved to Irvine, California. Their first child, a daughter, Layla (means "night" in arabic), was born on May, 30, 2017.
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Magic Realism (1)
To Read - Horror (1)
Ghosts (1)
Florida (1)
Secrets Books (1)
Carole's List (1)
al.vick-series (1)
First Novels (1)
Series (1)
Best Young Adult (1)
To Read (1)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 53
- Opere correlate
- 3
- Utenti
- 40,856
- Popolarità
- #430
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 1,688
- ISBN
- 440
- Lingue
- 26
- Preferito da
- 29
Purtroppo devo dire che rappresentano uno dei pochi elementi interessanti di questo libro, la cui idea di partenza non era affatto male, ma mi è sembrata sviluppata malissimo dall’autore. Infatti, l’antefatto all’ingresso del protagonista, Jabob, nel mondo dei bambini speciali dura mezzo libro e tiene in sospeso il lettore in attesa della svolta. È una parte abbastanza noiosa, dove l’unico stimolo a proseguire la lettura viene proprio dal desiderio di veder introdotta la parte fantasy.
Il problema grosso sorge quando, arrivati finalmente nel luogo dove vivono i bambini speciali, si continua a rimanere in attesa che accada qualcosa: non perché non succeda nulla, ma perché persiste la percezione che il romanzo debba ancora arrivare al suo punto di svolta, finché non si gira l’ultima pagina e si rimane con un palmo di naso.
L’ho trovato un romanzo un po’ noioso e un po’ frustrante: diciamo che Riggs non mi è sembrato proprio un maestro nel descrivere le scene d’azione, che vengono riportate con lo stesso pathos che potrebbe esserci in un gruppo di anziani che spettegolano prendendo il tè. Insomma, niente di memorabile...… (altro)