Aaron Starmer
{{short description|American novelist}}
{{infobox writer
|name=Aaron Starmer
|birth_date={{birth year and age|1976}}
|birth_place=Northern California, U.S.
|occupation=Author
|education=Fayetteville–Manlius High School
Drew University (BA)
New York University (MA)
|genre=Young adult fiction
|website={{url|http://www.aaronstarmer.com}}
}}
Aaron Starmer (born 1976 in northern California) is an American author of young adult fiction novels, known for The Riverman Trilogy and Spontaneous.{{Cite magazine |url=http://time.com/4571705/top-10-ya-childrens-books-2016/ |title=The Top 10 YA and Children's Books |last=Begley |first=Sarah |magazine=Time |publication-date=2016-11-22}} As of June 2016, he was working on another novel, entitled Meme. In 2016, it was reported that Awesomeness Films had bought the rights to adapt Spontaneous into a movie of the same name, which was released in 2020.{{Cite web |url=https://variety.com/2016/film/news/aaron-starmer-spontaneous-movie-1201786932/ |title=Aaron Starmer's Thriller 'Spontaneous' in the Works as Movie |last=McNary |first=Dave |website=Variety |date=June 2016 |publication-date=2016-06-01}} He has also co-authored a book about camping along with Catharine Wells and Timothy Starmer.{{Cite web |url=http://www.timesunion.com/sports/article/A-quieter-camping-experience-possible-1630570.php |title=A quieter camping experience possible |last=Scott |first=Gillian |website=Times Union |date=29 July 2011 |publication-date=2011-07-29}} Also in 2016, Starmer appeared at the annual Texas Book Festival.{{Cite web |url=http://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/arts/2016-09-15/texas-book-festival-2016-full-author-list/ |title=Texas Book Festival 2016: The Full List |last=Faires |first=Robert |website=Austin Chronicle |publication-date=2016-09-15}}
Biography
Starmer was born in northern California and raised in suburban Syracuse, New York, where he graduated from Fayetteville–Manlius High School.{{Cite web |url=http://www.syracuse.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2016/10/oswego_adventures_cny_books_and_authors.html |title=Oswego adventures: CNY books and authors |last=Frank |first=Casey Rose |website=Syracuse.com |date=21 October 2016 |publication-date=2016-10-21}} He received a B.A. degree from Drew University and a Master of Arts degree from New York University. A longtime resident of Hoboken, New Jersey, he now lives in a former schoolhouse in northern Vermont with his wife and daughter.{{Cite web |url=http://www.aaronstarmer.com/about/ |title=About}}
Reception
The Wall Street Journal named The Riverman, the first book of the Riverman Trilogy, one of the best books of 2014.{{Cite news |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/young-adult-fiction-tweens-betwixt-1426273535 |title=Young-Adult Fiction: Tweens Betwixt |last=Gurdon |first=Meghan Cox |website=The Wall Street Journal |date=13 March 2015 |publication-date=2015-03-13}} Brian Truitt, writing for USA Today, gave Spontaneous 3 out of 4 stars, writing that "...Starmer’s originality and well-paced plot give needed life to a story filled with random death."{{Cite web |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2016/10/16/fall-young-adult-books-roundup/91843858/ |title=All kinds of kids star in four new teen novels |last=Truitt |first=Brian |website=USA Today |publication-date=2016-10-16}}
A Publishers Weekly reviewer lauded that Stramer, through Meme, "crafts a neo-noir-flavored revenge thriller that stabs at the heart of 21st-century isolation".{{cite web | url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780735231924 | title=Meme by Aaron Starmer }}{{cite web | url=http://www.aaronstarmer.com/meme/ | title=MEME }}
Books
- The Best in Tent Camping: New York State (Menasha Ridge Press, 2007)
- Dweeb (Delacorte Press/Yearling Books, 2009)
- The Only Ones (Delacorte/Yearling, 2011)
- The Riverman Trilogy, which consists of the following three books:
- The Riverman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014)
- The Whisper (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015)
- The Storyteller (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2016)
- Spontaneous (Penguin Random House, 2016)
- Meme (2020){{cite web | url=http://www.aaronstarmer.com/meme/ | title=MEME }}
- The Locker 37 Series (Penguin Workshop){{cite web | url=http://www.aaronstarmer.com/locker-37-series/ | title=The Locker 37 Series }}
- LOCKER 37: THE MAGIC ERASER (2020)
- LOCKER 37: THE REWINDABLE CLOCK (2020)
- LOCKER 37: THE RIDICULOUS AND WONDERFUL RAINBOW HAT (2020)
- LOCKER 37: THE INTERDIMENSIONAL FISH STICKS (2020)
- A Million Views (Penguin Workshop, 2022){{cite web | url=http://www.aaronstarmer.com/a-million-views/ | title=A Million Views }}
References
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External links
{{Portal|Children and Young Adult Literature}}
- {{Official website|http://www.aaronstarmer.com/}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20141008162134/http://www.bookish.com/articles/aaron-starmer-interview-the-riverman-inspiration Interview] with Bookish
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Category:American young adult novelists
Category:Writers from California
Category:Drew University alumni
Category:New York University alumni
Category:Writers from Syracuse, New York
Category:Novelists from New York (state)
Category:American male novelists
Category:21st-century American novelists
Category:21st-century American male writers
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