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A masterful storyteller, he excels at building believable, yet fantastic settings for his stories. His works are marked by extensive use of mythological references and symbolism, often times in "modern" settings. Also a notable [[One of Us]], and despite his work's breathtaking popularity, he has remained remarkably humble and personable, managing to remain faintly bemused every time he finds hundreds of people waiting for him to sign their books or whatnot. Also, he's a [http://media.whosay.com/6734/6734_la.jpg highly respectable marsh-wiggle] with a ''very'' [[Nice Hat]]. [[Adorkable]]? Quite.
Gaiman has some affection for [[Canon Defilement]]- and is living proof that this particularly negative [[Tropes Are Tools|trope isn't bad]]. He described ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20120423074536/http://www.holycow.com/dreaming/stories/snow-glass-apples/ Snow, Glass, Apples],'' a [[Perspective Flip]] of "[[Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs (novel)|Snow White]]", as a mindvirus that he hoped would prevent the reader from ever experiencing the original innocently again. His [[External Retcon]] of ''[[Beowulf]]'' pulls a similar trick. ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130115022507/http://shedletsky.com/blog/the-god-who-loves-you The Problem of Susan]'' is something of a meta-twist on the concept, riffing off of Susan's exile from [[The Chronicles of Narnia|Narnia]]: her embrace of adolescence means that, ''retroactively,'' she experienced the original adventure as a [[Darker and Edgier]] pagan allegory. He is also fairly preoccupied with, though not necessarily an apologist for, [[Muse Abuse]].
[[Stephen King]] thinks [[Neil Gaiman]] may well be the greatest storyteller alive today, and has said so publicly. Considering this is [[Stephen King]] talking, that's saying something.
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He's married to [[Amanda Palmer]] of The Dresden Dolls. He has a [http://twitter.com/#!/neilhimself Twitter account] and a [http://neil-gaiman.tumblr.com/ Tumblr blog].
Sung a song about Jeanne d'Arc with [[Ben Folds]] on piano. [https://web.archive.org/web/20121228195724/http://music.amandapalmer.net/track/the-problem-with-saints It is magnificent.]
He once delivered [http://vimeo.com/42372767 an awe-inspiring (and quite hilarious) commencement speech] to the 2012 graduates of the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.
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