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In 1983 he and partner Mary McGrath had their first child, named Michael. In March of 1985 Gaiman wed McGrath, and that same year their daughter, Holly, was born. During that time Gaiman began writing short stories, including such titles as "How to Be a Barbarian," "How to Spot a Psycho," and "Jokers through History."
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Neil has two younger sisters, Claire and Lizzy. [10] The Gaimans moved in 1965 to the West Sussex town of East Grinstead, where his parents studied Dianetics at the Scientology centre in the town; one of Gaiman's sisters works for the Church of Scientology in Los Angeles.
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Neil Gaiman’s family is of Polish Jewish and Eastern European Jewish origin. Gaiman’s great-grandfather emigrated to the UK in 1914 from Antwerp, Belgium while his grandfather settled down in the Hampshire city of Portsmouth in the south of England. His grandfather changed his family name from Chaiman to Gaiman and set up a chain of grocery stores,...
Neil Gaimanwas born to David Bernard Gaiman and Sheila Gaiman. His father is an entrepreneur who runs his family’s chain of grocery stores, while his mother is a pharmacist. His parents are both Scientologists who studied Dianetics at the Scientology Centre in West Sussex. Because of his father’s activities with the Church of Scientology (David Gai...
When Gaiman was living in East Grinstead in the 1980s, he met Mary McGrath, who was a Scientologist. The two fell in love and welcomed their first child, Michael in 1983. We see glimpses of Michael in Neil Gaiman’s works that have taken inspiration from real life. For instance, Michael’s disdain at his father’s adventurous cooking and his tendency ...
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- Unusual School Suspension. In a Tweet from 2020, Gaiman revealed that "I was suspended from school for a week when I was 16 for being seen eating chips in a graveyard."
Neil Gaiman (born November 10, 1960, Portchester, Hampshire, England) is a British writer who earned critical praise and popular success with richly imagined fantasy tales that frequently featured a darkly humorous tone. Gaiman grew up in Sussex and attended Whitgift School in Croydon.
Neil Gaiman was born in Hampshire, UK, and now lives in the United States near Minneapolis. As a child he discovered his love of books, reading, and stories, devouring the works of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, James Branch Cabell, Edgar Allan Poe, Michael Moorcock, Ursula K. LeGuin, Gene Wolfe, and G.K. Chesterton.
May 23, 2018 · Gaiman, Neil 1960-PersonalBorn November 10, 1960, in Portchester, England; son of David Bernard (a company director) and Sheila (a pharmacist) Gaiman; married Mary Therese McGrath, March 14, 1985; children: Michael Richard, Holly Miranda, Madeleine Rose Elvira.