Stephenie Meyer is an American author, who was born on 24 December, 1973. She is most famously known for her work in the Twilight Series. She gained worldwide fame after the Twilight Series was published. Having sold more than 100 million copies of her book, she became the biggest selling author ...

Stephenie Meyer is an American author, who was born on 24 December, 1973. She is most famously known for her work in the Twilight Series. She gained worldwide fame after the Twilight Series was published. Having sold more than 100 million copies of her book, she became the biggest selling author for the year 2008 and 2009.

Stephenie Morgan Meyer was born to Stephen and Candy Morgan in Hartford, Connecticut. She finished her high school from Chaparral High School, Scottsdale. She went on to attend her college in Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. In the year 1997 she got her Bachelors Degree in English from the same University. She got married to Christian when she was only 21 years old, in 1994.

Stephenie Meyer started writing her first ever book, Twilight and finished it in a matter of three months. Later on it was published in the year 2005. This was followed by New Moon which was published in 2006. The third part, Eclipse was published in the year 2007. Breaking Dawn, the last of the Twilight Series was published in 2008. When New Moon was released, it reached #5 spot in the New York Times Bestseller list and the following week it reached #1 spot and it remained so for the following eleven weeks. The first three series spent a combined total of 143 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list. By the time the fourth series, Breaking Dawn was released, the Twilight Series had become so famous and popular that people couldn’t wait for it to get published. On the first day of its release, it sold over 1.3 million copies. The last installment of the Twilight Series won her the British Book Award. The Twilight Series has sold over a million copies around the world and it has been translated into 37 languages. In the year 2008, the Twilight Series got on the top four list of the year-end bestseller list on USA Today’s list. This feat was repeated again the following year on USA Today’s list. The same year USA Today reported that Stephenie Meyer broke J.K. Rowling’s record on their bestseller’s list. The Twilight Series spent a total of 102 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List.

The Twilight Series became so popular that it was made into a movie. It was produced by Summit Entertainment and was directed by Catherine Hardwicke. The movie starred Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson. The movie was released on 21st November 2008 and it made the two leading actors an instant superstar. Summit Entertainment has already released the second and the third part of the series.

Stephenie Meyer has been proclaimed as the world’s most famous vampire novelist after Anne Rice. In the year 2008, she was named as the Author of The Year by USA Today. She also made it to 349 on Time Magazine’s list of “100 Most Influential People in 2008”. She was also listed in Forbes’ list of Hollywood’s Top Earning Women. In the year 2009, Vanity Fair ranked her #82 on their list of “Top 100 Information Age Powers”. According to Amazon, she was the second bestselling author of the decade.

Other books to her credits are, The Host, Little, Brown and Company and Prom Nights from Hell. The Host was published in 2008 and it debuted at #1 on the New York Times Bestseller List.
Currently she lives in Cave Creek, Arizona with her family. She and her husband are blessed with three kids, Gabe, Seth, and Eli.

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