Neil Gaiman
Highly-awarded fantasy and science fiction author
Neil Gaiman was born in Hampshire, UK, and now lives in the United
States near Minneapolis. As a child he discovered his love of books,
reading, and stories, devouring the works of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien,
James Branch Cabell, Edgar Allan Poe, Michael Moorcock, Ursula K.
LeGuin, Gene Wolfe, and G.K. Chesterton. A self-described "feral child
who was raised in libraries," Gaiman credits librarians with fostering a
life-long love of reading:
"I wouldn't be who I am without libraries. I was the sort of kid who
devoured books, and my happiest times as a boy were when I persuaded
my parents to drop me off in the local library on their way to work,
and I spent the day there."