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Neil GaimanNeil Gaiman was born on November 10, 1960 in the United Kingdom. He is the author of numerous science fiction and fantasy works, including many comic books. As of 2002, he lives near Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.After being rejected many times by publishers, Gaiman pursued journalism as a means to learn about the world and make connections that he hoped would later assist him in getting published. During this time he wrote his first book, a now sought-after throwaway biography of the band Duran Duran, and a large number of articles for Knave magazine[?]. He also wrote two British graphic novels with his favorite collaborator and long time friend Dave McKean: Violent Cases[?] and Signal to Noise[?]. His hard work finally paid off, and he landed a job with DC Comics, which resulted in the series Black Orchid[?]. He has written a multitude of comics for several publishers, but his best-known work is the The Sandman comics series, which chronicles the adventures of Morpheus, the personification of Dream. (See Endless) All 75 issues of the regular series have been collected into 10 volumes that are still in print and selling well. Gaiman also writes songs, poems and novels, and wrote the BBC dark fantasy television series Neverwhere, which he later adapted into a book. In addition, he wrote the teleplay for the Babylon 5 episode "Day of the Dead" and the English language script to the anime movie Princess Mononoke. Gaiman is a Board Member as well as an active supporter of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund[?], and he regularly participates in fundraisers for the group including creating materials such as the original Snow, Glass, Apples[?] (the CBLDF owns the copyright). Shortly before the publication of American Gods, Gaiman began to write a weblog, which now resides on his official site and is one of the most-read weblogs on the Internet. Parts of it were extracted for publication in the NESFA Press collection of Gaiman miscellany, Adventures in the Dream Trade[?]. Gaiman received a World Fantasy Award for short fiction in 1991 for the Sandman issue, A Midsummer Night's Dream (see Dream Country). He received the 2002 Hugo Award for outstanding novel for American Gods. Gaiman forged an intense friendship with singer Tori Amos in the early ninties, far before she met stardom. As such he is constantly mentioned (often rather cryptically) in at least one of her songs on each of her albums. He also wrote the forewords to several of her tour programs as well as short stories to accompany her album "Strange Little Girls." (They appeared in the album booklet.) Some of her lyrical mentions: "If you need me, me and Neil will be hangin' with the dream king/Neil said hi, by the way" ("Tear In Your Hand," 1992); "Where's Neil when you need him?" ("Space Dog," 1994); "Will you find me if Neil makes me a tree?" ("Horses," 1996)...Gaiman based a character of a talking Tree on Amos; "Where are the Velvets?" ("Hotel," 1998...The Velvets are vampire-like characters from Gaiman's novel "Neverwhere";) "Get me Neil on the line, have him read Snow, Glass, Apples" ("Carbon," 2002). Gaiman is also friends with J. Michael Straczynski, creator of the television series Babylon 5. As such there is a species of aliens on that series called the Gaim; their heads closely resemble the mask worn by Gaiman's Sandman character.
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