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My Take
Grahame-Smith is my kind of literary troublemaker. Splicing zombies into Jane Austen and turning Abraham Lincoln into a vampire hunter sounds like a dare scribbled on a napkin, yet he had the nerve and the craft to make both into bestsellers and films. What I admire is the audacity married to discipline: behind the gleeful absurdity is a writer who clearly understands structure, tone, and what an audience secretly wants. Plenty of people have funny ideas; few do the unglamorous work of executing them all the way to the screen. He reminds me that originality often looks ridiculous right up until it works.
Overview
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.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Seth Grahame-Smith
- Name (Japanese)
- セス・グレアム＝スミス
- Reading
- せす・ぐれあむ＝すみす
- Born
- January 4, 1976 (age 50)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Capricorn / Dragon
- Origin
- Rockville Centre, New York, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- film producer / novelist / screenwriter / executive producer / manufacturer
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Bethel High School
- University
- Emerson College
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
5. Works & records
| Category | Title | Role | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Notable work | Pride and Prejudice and Zombies | — | |
| Notable work | Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter | — |
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.