Ransom Riggs





Ransom Riggs

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I grew up in Florida, went to Kenyon College in Ohio, then film school at USC in LA, where I still live. I write books and screenplays, blog daily for mentalfloss.com, and make short films.

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is my first novel. I'm really excited about it -- it was challenging and rewarding and I hope people like it. If you read that and like the found photographs in it, you might be interested in a book comprised entirely of found photographs that I have coming out January 2012 from HarperCollins. It's called Talking Pictures. You can find sneak peeks by doing a search for "mental floss talking pictures" (I included a number of images in blogs there) and I made a kinda-sorta book trailer for it, which is on my yout...more


Ransom Riggs isn't a Goodreads Author (yet), but he does have a blog, so here are some recent posts imported from his feed.

It's been ALMOST A YEAR since I've posted anything here -- I live mostly on Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr -- but I'm stopping back in to announce that Miss Peregrine is coming out in paperback in early June, and I'm going on tour!


I've seen the paperback and it's a gorgeous thing to behold. It also has a long Q&A with me in the back, creepy bonus photos, and a big chunk of the first chapter...

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Published on May 13, 2013 12:12 • 158 views
Average rating: 3.72 · 118,364 ratings · 15,278 reviews · 7 distinct works · Similar authors
Miss Peregrine's Home for P...
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 117,633 ratings — published 2011 — 44 editions
Talking Pictures: Images an...
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 386 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions
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3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 226 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions
Untitled (Miss Peregrine, #2)
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 52 ratings — expected publication 2014 — 3 editions
Miss Peregrine's Home for P...
3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 45 ratings — expected publication 2013 — 3 editions
Strange Geographies
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4.45 of 5 stars 4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2012
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“I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.”
Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

“When someone won't let you in, eventually you stop knocking.”
Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

“We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high.”
Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

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