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


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So I've been off in writing-Miss-Peregrine-Book-Two land and haven't been posting much on the ol' bloggy-blog, but that's going to change, I sort-of promise! I felt like I had to pop my head out of my cave to at least acknowledge the ongoing unlikeliness and insanity of Miss Peregrine still, eight months and counting after its publication, occupying a rather prominant spot on the bestseller lis...

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Published on February 04, 2012 20:20 • 357 views
Average rating: 3.70 · 47,732 ratings · 8,514 reviews · 5 distinct works
Miss Peregrine's Home for P...
3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 47,458 ratings — published 2011 — 24 editions
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The Sherlock Holmes Handbook
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 108 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions
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Untitled (Miss Peregrine, #2)
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Talking Pictures: Images an...
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions
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Strange Geographies
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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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GR-101: Book Appr...: Marilyn's 2011 Reading Log 22 9 Jan 04, 2011 09:57am  
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The Book Challenge: Mel's 2011 Challenge 31 26 Aug 03, 2011 05:29am  
Novel Ladies: Julie's Reading Log - 2011 21 22 Aug 29, 2011 11:18am  
GR-101: Book Appr...: MISS PEREGRINE'S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN 17 8 Aug 30, 2011 01:13pm  
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