The author Adam Shepard is a graduate of Merrimack College in North Andover, Massachusetts, where he studied with a basketball scholarship. He graduated with a degree in Business Management and Spanish.
After the success of Scratch Beginnings published by HarperCollins, he authored another book with the publishing house, The Best Four Years – full title The Best Four Years: How to Survive and Thrive in College (and Life) – about the years one spends in college based on his own experiences on how to make the most of the college experience from orientation to graduation.
After working as a bartender in North Carolina, he collected enough money to engage on a one-year world tour in 2011–2012 that took him to seventeen countries on four continents. He recounted his experiences in a book titled One Year Lived.[6]
He also created a series of courses under the title Next Level Success.[7]
On April 10, 2017, he released American Dream: A Documentary that chronicles in film footage his experiences when he is taken to a random American city and given $25 to survive for a month.
