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Neil Richard Gaiman (born November 10, 1960) is an English author of science fiction and fantasy short stories and novels, graphic novel, comic, and film. His notable works include The Sandman comic series, Stardust and American Gods. He lives near Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, in an "Addams Family house". He is married to Mary T. McGrath and has two daughters, Holly and Maddy, and a son, Michael. Gaiman's family is of Polish Jew origins; after emigrating from the Netherlands in 1916, his grandfather eventually settled in the Hampshire city of Portsmouth on the south coast of England and established a chain of grocery stores. His father, David Bernard Gaiman,worked in the same chain of stores; his mother, Sheila Gaiman (née Goldman), was a pharmacist. He has two younger sisters. After living for a period in the nearby town of Portchester, where Neil Gaiman was born in 1960, the family settled in 1965 in the West Sussex town of East Grinstead when his parents moved there...

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  • Nov 10, 1960
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  • Jul 2003
  • Nov 16, 2007
  • Sep 30, 2005
  • Jul 12, 1997
  • Mar 7, 2007
  • Jan 16, 2009

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  • 0961035269
  • 006051518X
  • 057504800X
  • 0380973650
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