Both writers have earned numerous awards and accolades: Pratchett was knighted for services to literature in 2009 and Gaiman’s novel The Graveyard Book won the 2008 Newbery Medal. At the time that the two collaborated on Good Omens, Gaiman wasn’t yet the household name he is today, though he had already begun writing the Sandman series for DC Comics. Gaiman, born in 1960, was also a middling student and a prolific reader who got his start in journalism. It wasn’t long after this that Good Omens’s co-author, Neil Gaiman, met Pratchett when he was asked to interview him. He published his first novel, The Carpet People, in 1971 and finally quit his job at the electricity board to pursue writing exclusively in 1987. As a young man, he worked as a journalist and a press officer for an English electricity board. He was a middling student with an interest in astronomy, though he was also an avid reader. Sir Terry Pratchett was born in Beaconsfield, England, in 1948.
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