![]() He meant for the titular character’s name to be “Caroline” but made a mistake and decided to stick with it. Gaiman has commented that the name “Coraline” originated from a typo. Gaiman finally finished the novella a decade later when it was published in 2002. He made special progress on the book when he got stuck on one of his other novels, American Gods, which gave him uninterrupted time to focus on Coraline. ![]() Gaiman approached his editor at HarperCollins with the first part of his book and was given a contract.Īfter this, Gaiman continued to work on Coraline whenever he got the chance to. After a while, he picked up Coraline once again when his younger daughter, Maddy, turned 5 – the same age as Holly was when he first began writing the book. Gaiman put a stop to the story once he moved to America and other projects took over. He had a vision in mind he wished for the story to have a female heroine and to be “refreshingly creepy.” ![]() ![]() He began writing the story in 1990 when his daughter was just 5 years old. It’s the strangest book I’ve written, it took the longest time to write, and it’s the book I’m proudest of.Ĭoraline started as a children’s book that Neil Gaiman wanted to write for his daughter Holly. It was a story, I learned when people began to read it, that children experienced as an adventure, but which gave adults nightmares. ![]()
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