Stephenie Meyer

Stephenie Meyer is the second of six children. Though she was born in Connecticut, she grew up in Phoenix, Arizona and attended Brigham Young University on a National Merit Scholarship. While in college, she married her childhood sweetheart. After spending almost a decade as a stay-at-home parent to her three sons, Meyer woke up from a dream that inspired—and ultimately became—chapter 13 of Twilight. She wrote the rest of the novel in about three months, sold Twilight a few months later in a three-book deal for $750,000, and upon the book’s publication two years later, Meyer became an overnight celebrity. She went on to publish three more books in the Twilight series, an accompanying novella, and eventually, Midnight Sun, which retells the story in Twilight from Edward’s perspective. Meyer was also heavily involved in producing the five movies adapted from her novels. The Twilight series is deeply influenced by Meyer’s Mormon faith and her love of classic English literature.