Chemist (Meyer) - Author Bio

Author Bio
• Birth—December 24, 1973
• Where—Hartford, Connecticut, USA
• Education—B.A., Brigham Young University
• Awards—
• Currently—lives in Cave Creek, Arizona


Stephanie Meyer is an American fiction writer and film producer, best known for her vampire romance series Twilight. The Twilight novels have gained worldwide recognition and sold over 100 million copies, with translations into 37 different languages Meyer was the bestselling author of 2008 and 2009 in America.

Meyer was ranked No. 49 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 (listed as No. 26). Her annual earnings exceeded $50 million. In 2010, Forbes ranked her as the No. 59 most powerful celebrity with annual earnings of $40 million.

Early life
Meyer was born in Hartford, Connecticut as the second of six children to Stephen and Candy Morgan. She was raised in Phoenix, Arizona, attending Chaparral High School in Scottsdale, Arizona, where her former English teacher remembered her as "bright but not overly so."

She attended Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, where she received a BA in English. In 1994, at the age of 21, Meyer married her Christian Meyer, whom she had known since she was four. Meyer worked briefly as a receptionist in a property company and had even considered law school, but when her first child was born she decided to be a stay-at-home-mother. The couple now has three sons.

Twilight novels
According to Myer, the idea for Twilight came to her in a dream in 2003. Although she had no writing experience, she sat down to capture the dream on paper. Starting with a short draft—of what would become Chapter 13—she wrote the complete novel within three months. Although she says its writing was strictly for her own enjoyment and that she had no intentions of seeking a publisher, her sister persuaded her 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 then competed for the rights to publish in a 2003 auction, and by the end of the year Meyer signed a $750,000 three-book deal with Little, Brown and Company.

Twilight was published in 2005 with a print run of 75,000 copies. Within a month, it reached No. 5 on the New York Times Best Seller list for Children's Chapter Books, later reaching #1. Foreign rights to the novel were sold to over 26 countries, and Publishers Weekly named it the Best Book of the Year. It was also a New York Times Editor's Choice.

With the success of Twilight, Meyer came out with three more books in the series: New Moon (2006), Eclipse (2007), and Breaking Dawn (2008). All books were top sellers, and in 2008 the four books of the series claimed the top four spots on USA Today's year-end bestseller list, making Meyer the first author to ever achieve this feat.

The novels held the top four spots again on USA Today's 2009 year-end list. In August of that year, the paper revealed that Meyer broke J. K. Rowling's record on their bestseller list—the four Twilight books had spent 52 straight weeks in the top 10. The books have spent more than 143 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller List.

Adult novels
In 2008 Myer published her first adult sci-fi novel, The Host. The author has said she has plans, and some initial writing, for another two books: "The Soul" and "The Seeker." The Host, about an alien and the human woman in inhabits, debuted at No. 1 on the New York Times Best Seller list, remaining on the list for 26 weeks.

In 2016 Meyer broke out of speculative fiction with The Chemist. A spy novel, it has received comparisons to the Jason Bourne series. (Adapted from Wikipedia. Retrieved 11/20/2016.)