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Gaiman was born on 10 November 1960 in Portchester, Hampshire. 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. His other sister, Lizzy Calcioli, has said, "Most of our social ...
Realizing that her own mother and father are in need of rescuing, Coraline then engages in a dangerous struggle with the "other mother" to retrieve her parents. Gaiman has also written books for young children, including the picture book The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish, published in 1997. In that story, young Nathan trades his father ...
Jun 26, 2009 · A Hollyday. Posted by Neil Gaiman at 10:52 PM. So twenty-four years ago today, Holly Gaiman turned up in my life. At that point she didn't even have a name: we had thought she was going to be a Gemma, but she didn't look like a Gemma, so Mary and I went back to the drawing board, or rather the baby names book, and decided independently that ...
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Holly Gaiman. Actress: Neverwhere. Holly Gaiman was born on 26 June 1985 in England, UK. She is an actress, known for Neverwhere (1996).
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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 ...
May 31, 2004 · I had plans to come the Elf Fantasy Fair in Utrecht, but my car exploded (1 big explosion and 4 little ones, actually). I even bought tickets to the Novello: Festival of Reading, "An Evening with Neil Gaiman" in Charlotte, NC (Charlotte being my Alma Mater), but was forced to end my hometown leave a week early to come back to Germany for ...
Jul 2, 2002 · Coraline started as a children’s book that Neil Gaiman wanted to write for his daughter Holly. He began writing the story in 1990 when his daughter was just 5 years old. He had a vision in mind; he wished for the story to have a female heroine and to be “refreshingly creepy.”. Gaiman put a stop to the story once he moved to America and ...
