Meg Cabot is an American writer of romantic and paranormal fiction for teens and adults and used to write under several pseudonyms, but now writes exclusively under her real name, Meg Cabot. She has written and released over fifty works, and is well known for The Princess Diaries, later made by Walt Disney Pictures into two feature movies of the same name. Meg's works have been the recipients of numerous prizes, including the New York Public Library Works for the Teen Age, the American Library Association Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers, the Tennessee Volunteer State Tasl Book Prize, the Book Sense Pick, the Evergreen Young Adult Book Prize, the Ira/cbc Young Adult Choice - as well as many others. She has had numerous #1 New York Times bestsellers. Cabot has more than fifteen million copies of her works children's, young adult, and adult in print worldwide.
After Meg finished Indiana High school, Cabot moved to New York City, with the original aim of pursuing a career as an artist. in 1991. However, she soon quit this job and started working as an assistant manager of the freshman dormitory at New York High school.
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Meg Cabot married financial author and poet Benjamin D. Egnatz on April 1, 1993. Their wedding date, April Fool's Day, was a deliberate play on her husband's belief that only fools get married in the first place. The wedding was actually an elopement in Italy. Her novel Every Boy's Got One is loosely based on her own elopement.
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