Stephenie Meyer

Stephenie Meyer is an American novelist and film producer born on December 24, 1973. She gained widespread recognition as the author of the vampire romance series Twilight, which has sold over 160 million copies and been translated into 37 languages. Meyer was the bestselling author in the U.S. in 2008 and 2009, with 29 million and 26.5 million books sold respectively. She received the 2009 Children's Book of the Year award from the British Book Awards for Breaking Dawn, the final book in the Twilight series. Meyer graduated from Brigham Young University with a degree in English and conceived the idea for Twilight in a dream. Inspired by Jane Austen and William Shakespeare, she successfully published the series after facing multiple rejections.