Facts about American Gods

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   Published in 2001, American Gods won the Hugo, Nebula, Bram Stoker, and Locus awards, making it one of Gaiman's most decorated novels.

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   Shadow Moon, the protagonist of American Gods, is a recently released convict whose wife dies in a car accident just before his release from prison.

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   A preferred text edition of American Gods, released in 2011, restored roughly 12,000 words that Gaiman had cut from the original published version.

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   The 2017 Starz television adaptation of American Gods featured a budget of 10 million dollars per episode, making it one of the most expensive cable series at that time.

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   Neil Gaiman spent six years researching and writing American Gods before its 2001 publication by William Morrow.

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