
Stephenie Meyer (born Stephenie Morgan on 24 December 1973 in Hartford, Connecticut) is an American novelist and film producer. She graduated from Brigham Young University in 1997 with a degree in English literature. Her first novel, Twilight (2005), opened a vampire romance series continued in New Moon (2006), Eclipse (2007) and Breaking Dawn (2008), and later extended by the novella The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner (2010), the reimagining Life and Death (2015) and Midnight Sun (2020). The saga has sold more than 160 million copies worldwide, has been translated into 37 languages, and was adapted into five feature films. Meyer has also written two novels for adult readers: The Host (2008) and The Chemist (2016), about a former government agent on the run from her employers. She was the bestselling author in the United States in both 2008 and 2009. She runs the production company Fickle Fish Films and divides her time between Arizona and Washington.