Adam Selzer (né le 13 Juillet 1980 à Des Moines, Iowa), est un auteur américain de 33 ans, centré principalement sur les histoires pour adolescents et jeunes adultes. Durant sa carrière d'écrivain, il fut plusieurs fois nommé à de célèbres concours, comme Young Adult Fiction award (2007), Book Sense Pick (2008), American Library Great Lakes Book Award (2009), ou encore Association's Banned Books Week packet (2010). On dit de ses livres qu'ils sont "as invigorating and smoothly satisfying as a good caffe latte." ("Comme revigorant avec douceur, et satisfaisant comme un bon café au lait"), et The Horn Book dit de lui qu'il est cinglant, amusant.
En 2009, le rédacteur en chef d'Adam, à la Random House, lui demanda d'écrire un livre basé sur "I Thought She Was a Goth", une chanson qu'il avait écrite dix ans plus tôt. Le livre qui en résulte, "j'ai embrassé un zombie et j'ai adoré", à été publié en Janvier 2010, et est réputé pour être "intelligent", "original", "hilarant" et "une parodie acerbe du genre roman paranormal".
En plus de son travail de comptable, Adam travaille comme historien, guide touristique et investigateur de fantôme à Chicago. Etrangement, il a démissionné de son poste après la saison d'Halloween en 2009, mais poursuit son travail d'historien comme un folkloriste.
Adam a co-écrit le scénario du film "At Last" en l'adaptant à partir d'un scénario qu'il avait, dit-il, d'abord écrit en classe, au lycée.

Ps : Désolée si quelques informations vous paraissent floues ou incomplètes, il n'y a pas du tout de biographies en français d'Adam Selzer sur Internet, j'ai donc dû tout traduire moi-même.

Adam Selzer (born July 13, 1980, in Des Moines, Iowa) is an author, primarily of young adult and middle grade novels. His first novel was How To Get Suspended and Influence People, a 2007 Random House novel which was included on the Chicago Public Schools 2007 Summer Reading List. It was also nominated for a Cybils 2007 Young Adult Fiction award, and, in 2009, made national news after attempts were made to have it removed from an Idaho library; it was included in the American Library Association's Banned Books Week packet in 2010. It was followed in 2008 by another book, Pirates of the Retail Wasteland, which teenspace called "as invigorating and smoothly satisfying as a good caffe latte.". Like his previous book, it was named a Book Sense Pick for summer, 2008.

In September, 2008, Random House published I Put a Spell On You, which is about a spelling bee, but is based on Watergate. The Horn Book called it "scathingly funny.," and The Bulletin of Children's Books compared Selzer to Andre Clements and Gordon Korman. It was nominated for a 2009 Great Lakes Book Award and became a noted choice for classroom reading. His 2009 book, Andrew North Blows Up the World, was his first for younger readers and was hailed as "a work of comic genius."

In 2009, Adam's editor at Random House asked him to write a book based on "I Thought She Was a Goth," a song he had written a decade earlier. The resulting book, "I Kissed a Zombie and I Liked It," was released in January 2010. to acclaim from trade reviewers, who described it as "smart," "original," "hilarious," and "a scathing parody of the paranormal romance genre.". Film rights were optioned by Disney Channel Original Movies His next scheduled book, announced in March 2010, is tentatively titled "Tangled Up in Blue," and will be published by Flux.

His first nonfiction book for Random House was The Smart Aleck's Guide to American History, which began to garner acclaim before it was even released. and was selected as a Junior Library Guild selection. Critics frequently compared the humor to that of The Daily Show and Mark Twain

Most of his books (and many of his songs) take place in Cornersville Trace, a fictional suburb of an unnamed midwestern city. Many of his characters and places are named after polka bands, such as Whoopee Norm Eddlebeck and the Dairyland Dutchmen, Myron Floren, and The Van den Berg Orchestra, among others.

In addition to his book work, Adam works as a historian, tour guide and ghost investigator in Chicago. In 2009, his first adult nonfiction title with a major publisher, Your Neighborhood Gives Me the Creeps, told stories of his life in these fields, He stepped down from his position with Weird Chicago Tours after the Halloween season in 2009., but continues work as a folklorist and historian with a blog charting the folk process in children's street culture including ghost stories popular among children.

Production on the film At Last, Okemah! began in April, 2009. Adam co-wrote the screenplay with director Michael G. Smith, adapting it from a script he had first written "during class in high school." It premiered September 13, 2009 at the Chicago International Reel Shorts Fest, at which is won an Audience Choice award.