赛斯·葛雷恩·史密斯

赛斯·葛雷恩·史密斯（英语：Seth Grahame-Smith，1976年1月4日—）是一位美国畅销小说作家及电影监制，出生名为赛斯·杰瑞德·葛林柏格（英语：Seth Jared Greenberg）。史密斯出生于纽约，却于华盛顿长大，现时与妻子Erin、儿子Joshua定居于洛杉矶。史密斯于2009年发表第一本小说《傲慢与偏见与僵尸》，旋即跻身纽约时报畅销书排行榜，两年来销量突破一百万本，2010年则推出《吸血鬼猎人林肯》。史密斯在发行小说前，曾发表数本非小说类作品，当中包括《色情全书》、《蜘蛛侠手册》及《如何成为恐怖电影中的幸存者》等。

作品列表

著作

Big Book of Porn: A Penetrating Look at the World of Dirty Movies (2005)

The Spider-Man Handbook: The Ultimate Training Manual (2006)

How to Survive a Horror Movie: All the Skills to Dodge the Kills (2007)

Pardon My President: Fold-and-Mail Apologies for 8 Years (2008)

《傲慢与偏见与僵尸》／Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2009)

《吸血鬼猎人林肯》／Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter (2010)

Unholy Night (2012)

《美国最后的吸血鬼》／The Last American Vampire (2015)

Seth Grahame-Smith (born Seth Jared Greenberg; January 4, 1976) is an American writer and film producer, best known as the author of The New York Times best-selling novels Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter, both of which have been adapted as feature films. Grahame-Smith is also the co-creator, head writer and executive producer of The Hard Times of RJ Berger, a scripted television comedy appearing on MTV. In collaboration with David Katzenberg, his partner in Katzsmith Productions, Grahame-Smith is currently developing a number of projects for television and film.

Early life

Grahame-Smith was born in Rockville Centre, New York, the son of Deborah Ann (née Williams) and Barry Michael Greenberg. He eventually grew up in Weston and Bethel, Connecticut, where he attended Bethel High School. His parents divorced when he was a child. Subsequently, his mother changed his surname to "Grahame", after author Kenneth Grahame, and later added the surname "Smith", from her remarriage. Grahame-Smith attended an Episcopal church after his mother's remarriage (his father was Jewish). His mother was a literary editor and his stepfather was a rare books dealer.

Career

Literature

Grahame-Smith's first widely published book was The Big Book of Porn: A Penetrating Look at the World of Dirty Movies, a non-fiction history of the erotic art form published in 2005. The next year, Grahame-Smith published The Spider-Man Handbook: The Ultimate Training Manual, an examination of Marvel Comics' Spider-Man, with an introduction by Stan Lee. In 2007, Grahame-Smith wrote How to Survive a Horror Movie: All the Skills to Dodge the Kills, a tongue-in-cheek guide to help readers escape situations most often shown in horror films. The book's introduction was written by horror film director Wes Craven. Grahame-Smith's next book was the satirical Pardon My President: Fold-and-Mail Apologies for 8 Years, a collection of letters addressed to various parties intended to apologize for the wrongs they had suffered under the administration of George W. Bush.

The idea for Grahame-Smith's next novel, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, came from his editor at Quirk Books, Jason Rekulak. Using Jane Austen's classic novel Pride and Prejudice as a platform, Rekulak suggested that Grahame-Smith mix a zombie plot into the public domain novel. Enamored of the idea, Grahame-Smith immediately began working on the novel, first by reading Pride and Prejudice and then by inserting the gruesome zombie elements, a process he has described as similar to microsurgery. Though Quirk Books was initially reluctant to publish the book in fear of alienating Austen's fans, the novel went to press in 2009, with modest sales expectations. In the weeks prior to the release, however, the book's popularity swelled dramatically as the cover and title of the novel circulated the internet. Anticipation for the book grew so rapidly that in its first week of release, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies surged to No. 3 on the New York Times Best Seller list. Since that time, the novel has sold over a million copies and been translated into over 20 languages.

Building on the success of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Grahame-Smith wrote another mash-up, Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter. As the title suggests, this book traces Abraham Lincoln's life from childhood through assassination, relying upon his "secret diaries" to reveal his central role in a worldwide struggle against vampirism. Released on March 2, 2010, this novel debuted at No. 4 on The New York Times Best Seller list under the category "Hardcover Fiction."

In addition to writing novels, Grahame-Smith made his debut as a comic book writer on Marvel Zombies Return: Hulk with artist Richard Elson.