1. Seth Grahame-Smith was born on Seth Jared Greenberg; January 4,1976 and 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.
In collaboration with David Katzenberg, his partner in Katzsmith Productions, Seth Grahame-Smith is currently developing a number of projects for television and film.
Seth Grahame-Smith was born in Rockville Centre, New York, the son of Deborah Ann and Barry Michael Greenberg.
Seth Grahame-Smith eventually grew up in Weston and Bethel, Connecticut, where he attended Bethel High School.
Seth Grahame-Smith attended an Episcopal church after his mother's remarriage.
Seth Grahame-Smith's mother was a literary editor and his stepfather was a rare books dealer.
The next year, Seth 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, Seth 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.
Enamored of the idea, Seth 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.
Two of Seth Grahame-Smith's best-selling books were made into feature films.
Seth Grahame-Smith adapted his book, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, for the screen, for producers Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov.
Seth Grahame-Smith wrote the script for Tim Burton's Dark Shadows, the film adaptation of the 1960s soap opera, replacing longtime Burton scribe John August.
Seth Grahame-Smith produced the film adaptation of the Mark Bianculli and Jeff Richard spec script The Waiting.
In October 2020, it was announced that Seth Grahame-Smith would be serving as showrunner for an upcoming HBO Max series based on Green Lantern.
Seth Grahame-Smith is set to write the series alongside Marc Guggenheim.