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From the BBC programme, 12 October 2013. Website Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman (; born Neil Richard Gaiman, 10 November 1960) is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books,, audio theatre, and films.

His works include the comic book series and novels,,,. He has won numerous awards, including the,, and awards, as well as the and medals. He is the first author to win both the Newbery and the Carnegie medals for the same work, The Graveyard Book (2008). In 2013, was voted Book of the Year in the British. Gaiman attended in, West Sussex 's was another childhood favourite, and 'a favourite forever. Alice was default reading to the point where I knew it by heart.' He also enjoyed comics as a child.

Gaiman was educated at several schools, including Fonthill School in East Grinstead, (1970–74), and in (1974–77). His father's position as a public relations official of the was the cause of the seven-year-old Gaiman being blocked from entering a boys' school, forcing him to remain at the school that he had previously been attending. He lived in East Grinstead for many years, from 1965 to 1980 and again from 1984 to 1987. He met his first wife, Mary McGrath, while she was studying Scientology and living in a house in East Grinstead that was owned by his father. The couple were married in 1985 after having their first child, Michael. Career Journalism, early writings, and literary influences. Gaiman, an patron, speaks about his concerns for creators' rights.

As a child and a teenager, Gaiman read the works of,,,,,,,,,,,,. When he was 19–20 years old, he contacted his favourite science fiction writer,, whom he discovered when he was nine, and asked for advice on becoming an author along with a Lafferty he had written. The writer sent Gaiman an encouraging and informative letter back, along with literary advice. Gaiman has said was the author who influenced him the most, with this influence particularly seen in Gaiman's literary style and the topics he writes about.

Other authors Gaiman says 'furnished the inside of my mind and set me to writing' include Moorcock, Ellison,,, Lafferty and Le Guin. Neil Gaiman has also taken inspiration from the folk tales tradition, citing 's book on the legends of the Isle of Skye as his inspiration for The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains. In the early 1980s, Gaiman pursued journalism, conducting interviews and writing book reviews, as a means to learn about the world and to make connections that he hoped would later assist him in getting published.

He wrote and reviewed extensively for the British Fantasy Society. His first professional short story publication was 'Featherquest', a fantasy story, in in May 1984. When waiting for a train at London's in 1984, Gaiman noticed a copy of written by, and carefully read it. Moore's fresh and vigorous approach to comics had such an impact on Gaiman that he would later write 'that was the final straw, what was left of my resistance crumbled. I proceeded to make regular and frequent visits to London's shop to buy comics'.

In 1984, he wrote his first book, a biography of the band, as well as Ghastly Beyond Belief, a book of quotations, with. Even though Gaiman thought he had done a terrible job, the book's first edition sold out very quickly.