Ransom Riggs

Ransom Riggs was born on a farm in Maryland before growing up in Englewood, Florida. As a child, he attended Pine View School for the Gifted and began writing stories by hand on legal pads and an old typewriter. He also became interested in photography and film. He went on to study English literature at Kenyon College and film at the University of Southern California. After graduating, Riggs worked on short films while writing for the online magazine Mental Floss. He then wrote The Sherlock Holmes Handbook in conjunction with the release of the 2009 Sherlock Holmes film. Because of his passion for found photography, Riggs began writing a book using curious vintage photographs as a guide for his plot, resulting in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2011). Riggs ultimately published six books in the series, with the final installment released in 2021. Riggs also married author Tahereh Mafi in 2013 and had a daughter in 2017; they currently live in Irvine, California.