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Stephenie Meyer (née Morgan) was born on December 24 1973 in Hartford, Connecticut to Mormon parents Stephen and Candy Morgan. She was second of her six brothers and sisters. Stephenie was raised in Phoenix, Arizona. She moved there with her family when she was only 4 years old. She got her uncommon name from her father who added vowels „i“ and „e“ as two last letters of her name. Stephanie, as an older sibling had to take care of her younger siblings.
Stephenie attended Chapparal High School in Scottsdale, Arizona. Her English teacher at Chapparal High remembers her as „bright but not overly“. She graduated from Chapparal High in 1992. Because she was an excellent student she got herself National Merit Scholarship.
Later, she used National Merit Scholarship to continue her education at Brigham Young University, located in Utah, where she studied English language and literature.
After finishing university education, Stephenie never got a job in her professional field - English language. Instead of job, she was a housewife taking care of her three young sons. But, her life turned upside down on 2 June 2003, when she dreamt of a girl and a vampire in love, and from that day on she could not take them out of her mind.
She realized she had to do something with the dream she dreamed. She invented the plot for the novel while she was was potty training her children and going on swimming lessons with them. Later, when everyone was home asleep, she wrote the story on her computer. Three months later she was done writing her first novel ever - Twilight. Originally, Stephenie wanted to keep the novel for herself and enjoy in reading it. Her older sister, the only person who knew she was writing a book, encouraged Stephenie to publish her book and make it available to public.
Stephenie sent the Twilight manuscript to numerous publishing companies and literary agencies. She sent, to be exact, 15 manuscripts, and of that amount five were unanswered, nine were rejected. Only positive response came from Writers House literary agent Jodie Reamer. Twilight's original title was Forks, but upon the intention of Jodie Reamer it was changed to Twilight. Stephenie and the Jodie worked together on polishing Twilight's manuscript. At a 2003 auction, eight publishing houses bid for rights to publish Twilight. In November she signed a $750,000 worth contract for three books with Little, Brown and Company, a publishing company.
On 5 October 2005, Twilight was published in 75,000 copies. Just in USA Twilight was sold in more that 2.2 million copies. Her first novel Twilight in the Twilight series has been translated in 37 world languages. Twilight rose to first place of New York Times' Best Seller's list for Children's books. Also, Publisher's Weekly entitled Twilight as Best Book of the Year and New Yorker Times proclaimed it Editor's Choice.
Stephenie Meyer's Twilight became one of 2005 most talked about topics. All the major magazines proclaimed Stephenie Meyer as one of the most promising new authors in 2005. After the success of Twilight, Meyer wrote three more sequels to Twilight - New Moon (2006), Eclipse (2007) and Breaking Dawn (2008). Those three sequels were also a success just as the first book of the series Twilight was. After completing the Twilight series she took a break from writing, but came back bigger than ever with her new book - The Host (2008).
Stephenie Meyer is also a film producer and an owner of her own production company - Fickle Fish Films, which she started together with Meghan Hibbet. She produced both parts of film based on her Breaking Bad novel. Stephanie's major and most recognizable is her Twilight series of vampire-themed novels. The novels were released from 2005 to 2008.
Stephenie Meyer's major achievements are her four novels of the Twilight series - Twilight (2005), New Moon (2006), Eclipse (2007) and Breaking Down (2008) with over 10 million copies sold just in The United States. Stephenie's Twilight novels broke previous record of J.K. Rowling on USA Today's bestseller list, spending 52 weeks in the top 10. All of the four Twilight novels spent over 143 weeks on the New Yorke Times Best Seller List. Her Twilight novels received a film adaptation in a subsequent series of 5 films- The Twilight Saga. The Twilight Saga grossed over 3.3 billion dollars for all 5 films. It stars Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner.
Meyer is a Mormon and a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Moved by her religion she does not smoke nor she drinks alcohol. Hence her religious beliefs, there are no erotic implications in any of her literary works.
Stephenie Meyer was never involved in the politics and she has never been a member of some political party.
Stephenie Meyers believes that love is the strongest force in the Universe and that it can happen to anyone, no matter how weird combination is, just like it happened in her Twilight series, love between a human and a vampire.
Meyer is a very loving and charming person. She believes in true love. She is also an altruistic donating money and goods to various charity organizations .
Physical Characteristics: Stephenie Meyer is 163 meters tall (5ft 4in). She has dark-brown eyes and brown hair. Her lips are full and she has pale complexion. Her physical build is average.
Quotes from others about the person
"I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars."
"Twilight, again. Another ending. No matter how perfect the day is, it always has to end."
"What if I'm not the superhero? What if I'm the bad guy?"
Stephenie is married to Christian Meyer. They got married in 1994. She lives in Arizona with her husband and their three sons - Gabe, Seth and Ali.
