Stephenie Meyer is an American writer known for her vampire romance series Twilight. The Twilight stories have gained worldwide recognition and sold over 100 million copies globally, with translations into 37 different languages. Meyer is also the writer of the adult science-fiction novel The Host.
Meyer was the biggest selling writer of both 2008 and 2009, having sold over 29 million works in 2008 alone, with Twilight being the best-selling book of the year. She sold an additional 26. 5 million works in 2009, making her the first writer to achieve this feat in that year. Meyer was ranked #49 on Time magazine's list of the 100 Most Influential People in 2008, and was also included in the Forbes Celebrity 100 list of the world's most powerful celebrities in 2009, entering at #26. Her annual earnings exceeded $50 million. Also in 2010, Forbes ranked her as the #59 most powerful celebrity with annual earnings of $40 million.
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Stephenie Meyer started life in Hartford, Connecticut, to Stephen and Candy Morgan. She grew up in Phoenix, Arizona, with five siblings: Seth, Emily, Jacob, Paul, and Heidi. She attended Chaparral university in Scottsdale, Arizona. She then attended Brigham Young High school in Provo, Utah, where she received a B. in English in 1997. Meyer met her husband Christiaan, nicknamed Pancho, when she was growing up in Arizona, and married him in 1994 when they both were 21. Together they have three sons: Gabe, Seth, and Eli.
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