Stephanie Meyer
Full name: Stephanie Meyer- Author of the Twilight Saga
Date of Birth: December 24, 1973
Born: Hartford, CN
Home Town: Phoenix, AZ (moved there when she was 4)
Parents: Stephen and Candy Morgan
Siblings: 5, Seth, Emily, Jacob, Paul, and Heidi
Husband: Married Christian (Pancho) in 1994 and is still happily married
Children: 3, Gabe(8), Seth(5), Eli(3)
Nickname: SteMe, Steph
Height: 5'4"
School: Chaparral High School in Scottsdale, AZ in 1992
Brigham Young University in Provo UT - Received a B.A. in English in 1995.
Trivia:
- She is a Vegetarian
- Graduated with composer Jason Brandt from Chaparral High School in Scottsdale AZ (Class of 1992)
- She made a cameo appearance in "Twilight"(2008)
- Also wrote the book "The Host"
- Will be participating in the creation of a new music video for Jack's Mannequin
- Frequently uses the names of family members and friends for characters in her books
- Her publishing company for the Twilight Saga is Little, Brown Company
- She is a Mormon
- She has no prior books to "Twilight"
- Before "Twilight" she was a stay at home mom
- Her favorite bank is muse
- The unusual spelling for her name comes from her father Stephen (+ie)
- On June 2, 2003 she had a dream about a human girl, and a vampire who was in love with her but thirsted for her blood
- From that dream that day she wrote what now is known as Chapter 13 of "Twilight"
- She had little writing experience, but wrote "Twilight" in a matter of 3 months, transforming a vivid dream into a complete novel
- "Twilight" has been translated into 20 languages
- She signed a 3-book deal with Little, Brown and Company for $750,000
- "Twilight"(2005), "New Moon"(2006), "Eclipse"(2007), "Breaking Dawn"(2008)
- The Saga as a whole has sold over 42 million copies world wide in 37 countries
- She started writing "Midnight Sun" to be a companion novel to the Saga, From Edward's perspective (as opposed to Bella), but a rough draft of the first 12 chapters were leaked online, so Stephenie chose to delay the project indefinitely.
- In addition to the leak she has decided to pursue non "Twilight" related books as a result of the Leak of "Midnight Sun"
- The town of Forks, WA, has received an unusual amout of attention from the Saga, and now celebrate "Stephenie Meyer Day" on September 13th (The date of Character Bella Swan's Birthday in the Saga
- When she appears at a bookstore 3,000 people go to meet her
- Many novels inspired the "Twilight Saga" such as
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
- Each book in the Saga was inspired specifically by a different Book
- "Twilight" - Jane Austen's, Pride and Prejudice
- "New Moon" - Shakespeare's, Romeo and Juliet
- "Eclipse" - Emily Bronte's, Wuthering Heights
- "Breaking Dawn" theme by two further plays of Shakespeare's, The Merchant of Venice and A Midsummer Night's Dream.
- She says her writing is also influenced by music, bands such as, Muse, Blue October, My Chemical Romance, Coldplay, and Linkin Park