I live in Milford, CT, where I write fiction, poetry, and essays full-time. I graduated from Yale and earned an MA in Comparative Literature from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. At Yale, I studied creative writing with Robert Penn Warren and Joseph Heller.

My published books include: Parallel Lives, Beyond the 4th Door, Nevermind, Breeze, Shakespeare's Twin Sister, To Gether Tales, and Echoes from the Attic (from All Things That Matter Press); Grandad Jokes, Why Knot?, The Lizard of Oz and Other Stories, We All Are Shakespeare, and We First Met in Ithaca or Was It Eden? (from Booklocker); The Name of Hero (historical novel, Tarcher/Houghton Mifflin), Ethiopia Through Russian Eyes (translation from Russian, Red Sea Press), and pioneering books about Internet business.

Recognition and Awards --

AltaVista Search Revolution won the Distinguished Technical Communication Award, the highest award given by the Society for Technical Communication Publications.  According to Library Journal, "This complete guide to using the AltaVista web searching/indexing system will be indispensable to both librarians and patrons.... Get one copy to circulate, nail one down in the computer lab, and pass one around the reference desk."

My translation, Ethiopia Through Russian Eyes (2000) was called "the most important book on the history of eastern Africa to have been published for a century" by the journal Old Africa (Nairobi, 2008).

2022 CT Press Club -- Why Knot? third place in General Non-fiction, Grandad Jokes honorable mention in Humor.

2020 CT Press Club -- Parallel Lives honorable mention in novels

My web site seltzerbooks.com (originally samizdat.com) was named one of the top 50 web sites in the world by Net Guide Magazine (September 1995), the best personal Web page of 1995 by Internet World Magazine (January 1996). It was rated four stars by Magellan. The Wayback Machine maintains an archive of its pages, gathered over 700 times between 1996 and today.

Online presence --

Amazon Author Page https://www.amazon.com/stores/Richard-Se... [2]

Goodreads Author Page https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/20... [3] over 1200 friends

Medium https://medium.com/ [4]@seltzer_57387 over 600 postings (stories, essays, and poems), over 7000 followers,

Twitter https://twitter.com/SeltzerBooks [5] over 26K tweets, over 20K followers