(Image credit: “Stephenie Meyer” by Gage Skidmore on Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0)Īmong her accolades, Stephenie Meyer has won the Young Adult Library Services Association for Best Fiction for Young Adults (2006), the USA Today award for Author of the Year (2008), and the British Book Awards for Children’s Book of the Year (2009). Stephenie Meyer speaking at the 2012 San Diego Comic-Con International. Her era as Queen of vampire-themed romance had begun, and shortly after, her books became three major movie hits Twilight (2005 film: 2008), New moon (2006 film 2009), and Eclipse (2007 film 2010). Jodi Reamer of Writers House liked what they saw, and soon after, she was offered about $750,000 by Little, Brown and Company. But she had to weather a flurry of rejections from literary agencies before she got her big break. Meyer completed a manuscript for the first of her vampire-themed book series, “Twilight,” in 2003. In 1994, she married her childhood friend, Christian “Pancho” Meyer, with whom she raised her three sons as a housewife. Meyer graduated from Brigham Young University with a bachelor’s degree in literature in 1997. The second of six children, Stephenie grew up in Phoenix, Arizona, and attended Chaparral High School before going to Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, on a National Merit Scholarship. Stephenie Meyer was born Stephenie Morgan to Stephen and Candy Morgan in Hartford, Connecticut on December 24, 1973. The American author is one of the best-selling authors, having sold over 100 million copies of Twilight worldwide. Twilight is a fantasy romance book series written by Stephenie Meyer. 4) Conclusion Who wrote the Twilight books?

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