Ransom Riggs

Ransom Riggs is an American novelist and filmmaker, born in Maryland and raised in Florida. He studied English literature at Kenyon College and film at the University of Southern California. He began with short films and blogging, then wrote The Sherlock Holmes Handbook (2009). His first novel, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2011), built its story around vintage found photographs and grew into a series of novels and companion books, adapted as a 2016 film directed by Tim Burton. He is married to the author Tahereh Mafi.