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Alan Oswald Moore: V For Vendetta

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Alan Moore is best known for writing comics and graphic novel and is the man behind the famous book V for Vendetta, which was also made its way to big screen and turned out to become a successful Hollywood movie in 2006. Other vital works of Alan Moore include From Hell and Watchmen. He was born on November 18, 1953, in Northampton, England, Alan Oswald Moore grew up in poverty and in a neighborhood with no basic

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