Ransom Riggs

American writer and filmmaker · United States · On the map · Writers · Born 1979 · age 47

Ransom Riggs is an American writer and filmmaker best known for the book Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.

Ransom Riggs is read about 209 times a day, in 24 languages.

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2015Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for Best Foreign-Language Young-Adult NovelAward2011“I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen.”In their wordsPrologue, Page 8Read the whole statement

“Like the monsters, the enchanted-islands story was also a truth in disguise.”In their wordsPrologueRead the whole statement

“Finally I came upon a pair of rooms missing entire walls, into which a little forest of underbrush and stunted trees had grown.”In their wordsChapter 3, Page 81Read the whole statement

“When someone won't let you in, eventually you stop knocking.”In their wordsChapter 4, Page 88Read the whole statement

“It was true of course, what my dad had said: I did worship my grandfather. There were things about him that I needed to be true, and his being an adulterer was not one of them.”In their wordsChapter 4, Page 92Read the whole statement

“I didn't know how to respond. How do you say I'm sorry your father didn't love you enough(YEAH RIGHT) to your own dad?”In their wordsChapter 4, Page 97Read the whole statement

1979Born3 February 1979

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My grandfather was the only member of his family to escape Poland before the Second World War broke out.
2011 · Prologue, Own words
When I was fifteen, an extraordinary and terrible thing happened, and there was only Before and After.
2011 · Prologue, Page 18, Own words
Sometimes you just need to go through a door.
2011 · Chapter 4, Page 92, Own words