Aaron Starmer (born 1976 in northern California) is an American author of young adult fiction novels, known for The Riverman Trilogy and Spontaneous.^[1] 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.^[2] He has also co-authored a book about camping along with Catharine Wells and Timothy Starmer.^[3] Also in 2016, Starmer appeared at the annual Texas Book Festival.^[4]

Starmer was born in northern California and raised in suburban Syracuse, New York, where he graduated from Fayetteville–Manlius High School.^[5] 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.^[6]

The Wall Street Journal named The Riverman, the first book of the Riverman Trilogy, one of the best books of 2014.^[7] 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."^[8]

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".^[9][10]

• 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)^[11]
• The Locker 37 Series (Penguin Workshop)^[12]
  • 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)^[13]

• Official website
• Interview with Bookish

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