Meyer met her future husband, Christian "Pancho" Meyer, in Arizona when they were both children. Although she began and finished her degree at BYU, she took classes at Arizona State University in fall 1996 and spring 1997. In 1992, Meyer won a National Merit Scholarship, which helped fund her undergraduate studies at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, where she received a BA in English Literature in 1997. Meyer was raised in Phoenix, Arizona, and attended Chaparral High School in Scottsdale, Arizona. Stephenie Morgan was born on December 24, 1973, in Hartford, Connecticut, the second of six children to financial officer Stephen Morgan and homemaker Candy Morgan. Meyer was included on Time magazine's list of the "100 Most Influential People in 2008" and was included in the Forbes Celebrity 100 list of the world's most powerful celebrities in 2009, with her annual earnings exceeding $50 million. Critics have called her writing style overly simplistic, but her stories have also received praise, and she has acquired a fan following. Themes consistent with her religion, including agency, mortality, temptation, and eternal life, are prominent in her work. Meyer's membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints shaped her novels. Meyer produced both parts of Breaking Dawn and two other novel adaptations. Meyer has worked in film production and co-founded production company Fickle Fish Films. Aside from young adult novels, Meyer has ventured into adult novels with The Host (2008) and The Chemist (2016).
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After many rejections, Little, Brown and Company offered her a $750,000 three-book deal which led to a four-book series, several spin-off novels and novellas, and a series of commercially successful film adaptations. Influenced by the work of Jane Austen and William Shakespeare, she wrote Twilight soon thereafter. Having no prior experience as an author, she conceived the idea for the Twilight series in a dream. Meyer received the 2009 Children's Book of the Year award from the British Book Awards for Breaking Dawn, the Twilight series finale.Īn avid young reader, she attended Brigham Young University, marrying at the age of twenty-one before graduating with a degree in English in 1997. Meyer was the bestselling author of 20 in the U.S., having sold over 29 million books in 2008 and 26.5 million in 2009. She is best known for writing the vampire romance series Twilight, which has sold over 160 million copies, with translations into 37 different languages. ər/ née Morgan born December 24, 1973) is an American novelist and film producer.
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