Stephenie Meyer (born 12/24/73), née Morgan, is an American author most known for her romance series Twilight. The Twilight novels have gained worldwide recognition, won multiple literary awards and have sold over 85,000,000 copies worldwide, with translations into 37 languages. Stephenie Meyer is also the author of the adult science-fiction novel The Host.
Meyer was named USA Today’s “Author of the Year” in 2008. She was also the best selling author of the year, having sold over 29 million books in 2008 alone, with Twilight being the best-selling book of the year. Meyer was ranked number 49 on Time magazine’s list of the “100 Most Influential People in 2008″, and Meyer was also included in the Forbes Celebrity 100 list of the world’s most powerful celebrities in 2009, entering at #26 with annual earnings exceeding $50 million.
Meyer says that the idea for Twilight came to her in a dream on June 2, 2003. The dream was about a human girl, and a vampire who was in love with her but thirsted for her blood. Based on this dream, Meyer wrote the transcript of what is now Chapter 13 of the book. In a matter of three months Meyer had transformed her dream into a completed novel, though she claims that she initially never meant to publish Twilight and was writing for her own enjoyment. Her sister’s response to the book was enthusiastic and she persuaded Meyer to send the manuscript to literary agencies. Of the 15 letters she wrote, five went unanswered, nine brought rejections, and the last was a positive response from Jodi Reamer of Writers House. Eight publishers competed for the rights to publish Twilight in a 2003 auction. By November, Meyer had amazingly signed a $750,000 three-book deal with Little, Brown and Company.
The novel Twilight was published in 2005 with a print run of 75,000 copies. It reached #5 on the New York Times Best Seller list for Children’s Chapter Books within one month of its release, and later rose to #1.
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