Summary Of Ransom Riggs

Ransom Riggs is a children's literature author with books including, The Sherlock Holmes Handbook: The Methods and Mysteries of the World's Greatest Detective, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Talking Pictures: Images and Messages Rescued from the Past, Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Children, and Library of Souls (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children #3). He like to tell story with words, pictures, and often both. Riggs is an American born in 1980 in Maryland. He grew up on a farm on the Eastern shore of Maryland and also in a little house by the beach in Englewood, Florida. He started writing stories when he was young, on an old typewriter. When Riggs was a little older he got a camera for Christmas and became
obsessed with photography. After Riggs got a little older his friends and him came into possession of a half-broken video camera and began to make their own movies, starring themselves, using their bedrooms and backyards for sets. After high school he went to Kenyon College in rural Ohio, where he studied literature and got a degree in English. Soon after college Riggs went to film school at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He spent a few years writing scripts and taking meetings and not getting very far, trying any way he could to get noticed. For five years Riggs had a gig as a daily blogger for mentalfloss.com, and he also wrote for their magazine, contributed to a few books they published through Harpercollins, and wrote for a couple of other publications here and there. He now lives in Los Angeles with his wife, the talented Tahereh Mafi -- who is also a writer.