The New York Times Best Seller
Ransom Riggs is the #1 New York Times best-selling author of the Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children novels. Riggs was born on a farm in Maryland and grew up in southern Florida. He studied literature at Kenyon College and film at the University of Southern California. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, the best-selling author Tahereh Mafi, and their family.
“A tense, moving, and wondrously strange first novel. The
photographs and text work together brilliantly to create an
unforgettable story.”—John Green, New York Times best-selling
author of Looking for Alaska and Paper Towns
“Readers searching for the next Harry Potter may want to visit Miss
Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.”—CNN
“Riggs deftly moves between fantasy and reality, prose and
photography to create an enchanting and at times positively
terrifying story.”—Associated Press
“I read all of the Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children books
and I loved them.”—Florence of Florence + The Machine
“[A] thrilling, Tim Burton-esque tale with haunting
photographs.”—USA Today Pop Candy
“With its X-Men: First Class-meets-time-travel story line, David
Lynchian imagery, and rich, eerie detail, it’s no wonder Miss
Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children has been snapped up by
Twentieth Century Fox. B+”—Entertainment Weekly
“Peculiar’ doesn’t even begin to cover it. Riggs’ chilling,
wondrous novel is already headed to the movies.”—People
“You'll love it if you want a good thriller for the summer. It's a
mystery, and you'll race to solve it before Jacob figures it out
for himself.”—Seventeen
“Delightfully weird.”—Good Housekeeping
“One of the coolest, creepiest YA books.”—PopSugar
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