Stephenie Meyer
Author of Twilight
About the Author
Stephenie Meyer was born in Hartford, Connecticut on December 24, 1973. She received a bachelor's degree in English from Brigham Young University. Her first novel, Twilight, was published in 2005 and was the beginning of the popular Twilight Saga, which includes New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking show more Dawn. All the books within the Twilight Saga were made into feature-length films. Her first novel for adults, The Host, was published in 2008. Meyer's novel The Chemist has been on several best seller lists including USA Today, Barnes and Noble and New York Times. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Disambiguation Notice:
Stephenie Meyer wrote the Twilight series, as well as The Host.
(Stephanie Meyer - with an "a" - edited the "Teen Ink" books and should not be combined on this page.)
Series
Works by Stephenie Meyer
Twilight • New Moon • Eclipse • Breaking Dawn • The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner (2012) 516 copies, 3 reviews
Twilight • New Moon • Eclipse • Breaking Dawn • Midnight Sun • Life and Death (2020) 232 copies, 3 reviews
Stephenie Meyer 2 Books Collection Set (Midnight Sun, The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner) (2020) 5 copies
Twilight Outtakes - Original Chapter 20 "Flight" a.k.a. Shopping with Alice (Twilight, #1.3) 5 copies
Untitled 4 copies
New Moon Outtakes - The Scholarship 3 copies
"The Templar Legacy" 2 copies
What I Saw And How I Lied 2 copies
La Saga De Crepusculo ( Dvd De La Pelicula Crepusculo Y Cd El Soundtrack De Luna Nueva) (Crepusculo) 1 copy
Untitled Adult Horror Novel 1 copy
Amurg, Vol I, Partea a II-a 1 copy
Amurg, Vol I, Partea I 1 copy
Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer 7 Books Collection Set (Life and Death, Midnight Sun and More) (2025) 1 copy
トワイライト〈9〉黄昏は魔物の時間 1 copy
トワイライト〈8〉冷たいキスをあたしに 1 copy
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- Meyer, Stephenie
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- Morgan, Stephenie (birth name)
Morgan Meyer, Stephenie - Birthdate
- 1973-12-24
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- Brigham Young University (BA|English|1995)
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- novelist
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- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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- Hartford, Connecticut, USA
- Places of residence
- Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
Glendale, Arizona, USA - Disambiguation notice
- Stephenie Meyer wrote the Twilight series, as well as The Host.
(Stephanie Meyer - with an "a" - edited the "Teen Ink" books and should not be combined on this page.) - Associated Place (for map)
- Arizona, USA
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Discussions
Discussion of The Host by Stephenie Meyer -- SPOILERS! in Hogwarts Express (June 2013)
Twilight in Someone explain it to me... (September 2012)
Book discussion: New Moon (Twilight Series #2) in Hogwarts Express (July 2011)
Book Discussion: Twilight in Hogwarts Express (June 2011)
**SPOILERS**The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner in Hogwarts Express (July 2010)
Twilight: hate it in FantasyFans (October 2009)
the host in Talk about LibraryThing (May 2009)
Discussion of Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer (CAUTION:SPOILERS!!!) in Hogwarts Express (August 2008)
Reviews
'Sparkle Family Reunion Tour 2020' Reread
Yeaaaahh. My feelings about this series, twinkies, loving the Cullens, the writing playlist, and side-eying a whole lot of SM have pretty much not changed in the past decade.
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(2008 Reviews / Continued Across all four books / all read in less than 53 hours
Just going to copy these over from the lolarious mass-review I did in 2018)
Let me start this out with saying, I'm sure if I tried I could take these books seriously and in doing so show more I would abhor Stephenie Meyers with the utter damnation burning hate in ground into me by five years of being an English major, but honestly, I'm not sure how anyone could go into these books expecting (or wanting to expect) more than fanfic-esque fourteen-year-old-wish-fulfillment. Which is what I did and likely why I was willing to roll with it, because lets just start with the bare minimum that I knew before I started reading.
We have a protagonist girl, who comes from a broken home, who's paler than anyone else who's human and blushes as often as the wind blows, who's never been interested in a boy seriously before, with extremely low self esteem, who is the worlds biggest cultz, who attracts danger like she's got a beacon on her head saying come and get it, who is all helplessly weak and who can not be touched, read, or effected by any type of mental magic.
She is paralleled by the boy protagonist, who just happens to be a one hundred and eight year old vampire with the most well adjusted family of Brandy-style vampires, who doesn't drink human blood, with the one-way power to listen to other people's thoughts, who looks like a runway model or God, has never considered any other woman seriously before in his life and unlife, and has to be broody/moody/strong enough to resist killing her every moment he's near her because she's the one thing in the world he'd best love to do that to out of no fault of their own but fate.
I mean, c'mon, Anita Blake wasn't even that flagrantly Mary Sue-Fan Fic-ish until she became the Whore of Babylon. Thus I went into it expecting fourteen-year-old-wish fulfillment and lo and behold I was not surprised or disappointed when I found it there.
I think Cleolinda said it best:
Twilight
Twilight is my favorite book out the set. It relies on nothing else and was born and written to be the end-all and be all of the Bella-Edward story before hype and popularity (and the fic bunnies of insanity we all know so well) convinced the writer that there would be a following interest if she wanted to write more in their world.
I like the way they first interact. I love that her innocuous presence drives him utterly bat shit crazy in the space of not even a second, and that while she's being all pity-party wounded about him being the biggest asshole in the world he's doing his damnedest not to kill a room full of twenty 'causalities' just to get to her. And that it's about two-thirds of the book away before Bella (and us through her) actually understand what has taken place. That by the time that takes places he's saved her from a van, without an explanation, and from a group of thugs in another city, where he's been stalkerishly following her, and told her to stay away even though he's given up trying to himself.
The realistic dynamic of having to take friendship on faith, without always getting answers, on both sides makes me deliriously pleased with it. On his side, he's spent eighty years knowing exactly how to manipulate and deconstruct the actions/thoughts/intentions of anyone in his presence and now there is this girl ('this child'), who is an utter mystery to him, who keeps compelling him to break all his rules (those set by his family, his species, and his moral code). On her side, she's dealing with a boy who first hates/reviles her, then saves her, then blows her off entirely right after saving her to the point where he won't talk or look at her, then who suddenly talks to her like its nothing, warning her that it's bad idea for her to let him, then saves her again, still without being willing to explain.
The changes in vampire mythos neither squick nor excite me. It's ground work that makes me happy, especially when you're willing to make and play by your own rules. I did like (forgive the hodge podge of my brain) whichever book had the hand crawling back to its body. That made me really love that she did keep to her mythos lines of only 'torn apart and burned' stopped a vampire. The sparkly thing just amuses the crap out of me. It's a weakness with a glittery side. Literally. Something amazing that can hardly be shared or ignored. I think the eye changing colors part is well thought out, how the color is effected by blood when feeding, when not feeding, when having fed on specific other things across time.
I love Alice's power, and how it changes every time the person in reference makes a new decision. I love that Edward is very specifically not a telepath but can only hear thoughts in his head the way we hear voices out loud. (And that we're given the grand difference of his not being able to project when compared with the werewolves community talk, and the fact Edward does not respond to anyone else with his thoughts.) I honestly laughed out loud at the sparkling thing, because its pricelessly shocking, unpredictable, and it would keep me from coming out in the sunlight too.
I've already rambled about the fact I love the plot (3/6ths, 2/6ths, 1/6ths) structure. I really, really do. In a large part because it's a coherent structure she sticks to, which is not the normal kind but works for her plot objectives. The romance, attraction, family feel good is not sacrificed on the altar of the scary tactics, but instead because it comes later it synchs all of those even tighter. I absolutely love the baseball game. I had no idea it was coming and had never conceivably thought in this direction (even with years as a Rice fan from my earliest teens).
Bella wanting to be a vampire in this book strikes me as no surprise, even if I can understand where people would go omg noes at it. Hello, we're talking about a conversation suddenly about age and life between a seventeen-year-old who looks seventeen and is seventeen years old and knows mortality is very starkly all over her and her beau, a 107-year-old man, who looks seventeen forever, and will never be. Of course, she doesn't want to age and he wants her to have what he never got to. They are both struggling with the same urge: to live the life the other has, even if vicariously through the other. This is so many relationships in the real world (with other reasons) it struck me interestingly to see. show less
Yeaaaahh. My feelings about this series, twinkies, loving the Cullens, the writing playlist, and side-eying a whole lot of SM have pretty much not changed in the past decade.
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(2008 Reviews / Continued Across all four books / all read in less than 53 hours
Just going to copy these over from the lolarious mass-review I did in 2018)
Let me start this out with saying, I'm sure if I tried I could take these books seriously and in doing so show more I would abhor Stephenie Meyers with the utter damnation burning hate in ground into me by five years of being an English major, but honestly, I'm not sure how anyone could go into these books expecting (or wanting to expect) more than fanfic-esque fourteen-year-old-wish-fulfillment. Which is what I did and likely why I was willing to roll with it, because lets just start with the bare minimum that I knew before I started reading.
We have a protagonist girl, who comes from a broken home, who's paler than anyone else who's human and blushes as often as the wind blows, who's never been interested in a boy seriously before, with extremely low self esteem, who is the worlds biggest cultz, who attracts danger like she's got a beacon on her head saying come and get it, who is all helplessly weak and who can not be touched, read, or effected by any type of mental magic.
She is paralleled by the boy protagonist, who just happens to be a one hundred and eight year old vampire with the most well adjusted family of Brandy-style vampires, who doesn't drink human blood, with the one-way power to listen to other people's thoughts, who looks like a runway model or God, has never considered any other woman seriously before in his life and unlife, and has to be broody/moody/strong enough to resist killing her every moment he's near her because she's the one thing in the world he'd best love to do that to out of no fault of their own but fate.
I mean, c'mon, Anita Blake wasn't even that flagrantly Mary Sue-Fan Fic-ish until she became the Whore of Babylon. Thus I went into it expecting fourteen-year-old-wish fulfillment and lo and behold I was not surprised or disappointed when I found it there.
I think Cleolinda said it best:
A lot of people are really passionate about these books. Some of them love and defend them passionately; others... well. I'm not going to defend them any more than I'm going to defend Twinkies--you go and get yourself a Twinkie when you have a very specific kind of craving. If you want a gourmet pastry or even a homemade cake, you know where to get that. If you're eating a Twinkie, you clearly know what you want and why you're eating it, and you know that it's not good to eat very many of them, but... you know... sometimes you just want one.
Twilight
Twilight is my favorite book out the set. It relies on nothing else and was born and written to be the end-all and be all of the Bella-Edward story before hype and popularity (and the fic bunnies of insanity we all know so well) convinced the writer that there would be a following interest if she wanted to write more in their world.
I like the way they first interact. I love that her innocuous presence drives him utterly bat shit crazy in the space of not even a second, and that while she's being all pity-party wounded about him being the biggest asshole in the world he's doing his damnedest not to kill a room full of twenty 'causalities' just to get to her. And that it's about two-thirds of the book away before Bella (and us through her) actually understand what has taken place. That by the time that takes places he's saved her from a van, without an explanation, and from a group of thugs in another city, where he's been stalkerishly following her, and told her to stay away even though he's given up trying to himself.
The realistic dynamic of having to take friendship on faith, without always getting answers, on both sides makes me deliriously pleased with it. On his side, he's spent eighty years knowing exactly how to manipulate and deconstruct the actions/thoughts/intentions of anyone in his presence and now there is this girl ('this child'), who is an utter mystery to him, who keeps compelling him to break all his rules (those set by his family, his species, and his moral code). On her side, she's dealing with a boy who first hates/reviles her, then saves her, then blows her off entirely right after saving her to the point where he won't talk or look at her, then who suddenly talks to her like its nothing, warning her that it's bad idea for her to let him, then saves her again, still without being willing to explain.
The changes in vampire mythos neither squick nor excite me. It's ground work that makes me happy, especially when you're willing to make and play by your own rules. I did like (forgive the hodge podge of my brain) whichever book had the hand crawling back to its body. That made me really love that she did keep to her mythos lines of only 'torn apart and burned' stopped a vampire. The sparkly thing just amuses the crap out of me. It's a weakness with a glittery side. Literally. Something amazing that can hardly be shared or ignored. I think the eye changing colors part is well thought out, how the color is effected by blood when feeding, when not feeding, when having fed on specific other things across time.
I love Alice's power, and how it changes every time the person in reference makes a new decision. I love that Edward is very specifically not a telepath but can only hear thoughts in his head the way we hear voices out loud. (And that we're given the grand difference of his not being able to project when compared with the werewolves community talk, and the fact Edward does not respond to anyone else with his thoughts.) I honestly laughed out loud at the sparkling thing, because its pricelessly shocking, unpredictable, and it would keep me from coming out in the sunlight too.
I've already rambled about the fact I love the plot (3/6ths, 2/6ths, 1/6ths) structure. I really, really do. In a large part because it's a coherent structure she sticks to, which is not the normal kind but works for her plot objectives. The romance, attraction, family feel good is not sacrificed on the altar of the scary tactics, but instead because it comes later it synchs all of those even tighter. I absolutely love the baseball game. I had no idea it was coming and had never conceivably thought in this direction (even with years as a Rice fan from my earliest teens).
Bella wanting to be a vampire in this book strikes me as no surprise, even if I can understand where people would go omg noes at it. Hello, we're talking about a conversation suddenly about age and life between a seventeen-year-old who looks seventeen and is seventeen years old and knows mortality is very starkly all over her and her beau, a 107-year-old man, who looks seventeen forever, and will never be. Of course, she doesn't want to age and he wants her to have what he never got to. They are both struggling with the same urge: to live the life the other has, even if vicariously through the other. This is so many relationships in the real world (with other reasons) it struck me interestingly to see. show less
I've read the whole "Twilight" series so I was curious to see where this was going. I knew it was just a genderbent version of book 1, but it's been 10 years, so maybe something's changed and I'd LOVE to see a kickass female version of Jacob and the potential for a heterosexual male protagonist who admits that guys are really attractive (given Bella's frequent reminders that vampires are ALL supermodels). Even Meyer's foreward is promising: she talks about things in the manuscript she's show more wanted to change for years that she finally gets a chance to go back to. Grammar, typos, weird dialogue, WTF scenes and so on. Clearly she knew there were a lot of issues in the manuscript, like every good author, and is gonna take the opportunity to go back and do some fixes!
Despite that, my hopes were not exceedingly high. But perhaps they were still TOO high. You'll have to forgive me that when I'm promised that someone is going to go through an old manuscript and edit for typos and grammar mistakes and other writing screw-ups that I expect... more. Particularly a published author with more books under their belt after a decade of experience. Because as far as I can tell, nothing has changed other than replacing Bella's name with Beau and using male pronouns for the protagonist rather than female ones (and the genderbending of the other characters, I guess). The prose is still awful. The scenes are poorly written. The character development is laughable. The added male chauvinism (cause of course genderbending your female protagonist to a guy obviously needs some of that) was repulsive and, of course, from reading ahead, Beau insists on "helping" his vampire girlfriend, like the chivalrous young man he is. And of course, 'no homo' levels are high, although I'm amused that to at least some extent Beau is willing to admit that men can be attractive. Just not in THAT way. You know??? -insert mass eye-rolling- I mean it was a vague hope, but I know Meyer wouldn't pull that off.
I'd write something about the potential for CharliexCarlisle fanfiction, given Charlie's switch from Esme to the now female Carlisle (or did he fancy Alice? I forget), but it probably already existed before this. That's about the only interesting thing, here, and I started with that to point out the truly boring nature of this book that only the relatively absurd comes to mind to pass the time. I enjoy the idea of a female dominated group of First Nation warriors, a more powerful woman who is protective of her wannabe boyfriend and how the story is wrapped up relatively quickly in the end rather than female-Edward dragging things out for three more books like he does in the regular series because he's incredibly asinine. But the writing isn't worth it. I could deal with this in high school, when I knew it was terrible but hadn't read too much actually decent writing and didn't possess much of my ability to critically analyze writing. Post-college doesn't work, though. The writing isn't even passable to allow for a decent story idea to work its way into your heart.
If you've read "Twilight" and you like it, well, this is an opportunity to reread book 1. Maybe you'll spot those typos and things Meyer "fixed". If you haven't read the books, this really isn't worth it. If you want a lesbian vampire romance, go read Sheridan le Fanu's "Carmilla". If you want a gay vampire romance, go read the webcomic "Transfusions". If you want a funny story about vampires and werewolves, watch "What We Do In the Shadows". show less
Despite that, my hopes were not exceedingly high. But perhaps they were still TOO high. You'll have to forgive me that when I'm promised that someone is going to go through an old manuscript and edit for typos and grammar mistakes and other writing screw-ups that I expect... more. Particularly a published author with more books under their belt after a decade of experience. Because as far as I can tell, nothing has changed other than replacing Bella's name with Beau and using male pronouns for the protagonist rather than female ones (and the genderbending of the other characters, I guess). The prose is still awful. The scenes are poorly written. The character development is laughable. The added male chauvinism (cause of course genderbending your female protagonist to a guy obviously needs some of that) was repulsive and, of course, from reading ahead, Beau insists on "helping" his vampire girlfriend, like the chivalrous young man he is. And of course, 'no homo' levels are high, although I'm amused that to at least some extent Beau is willing to admit that men can be attractive. Just not in THAT way. You know??? -insert mass eye-rolling- I mean it was a vague hope, but I know Meyer wouldn't pull that off.
I'd write something about the potential for CharliexCarlisle fanfiction, given Charlie's switch from Esme to the now female Carlisle (or did he fancy Alice? I forget), but it probably already existed before this. That's about the only interesting thing, here, and I started with that to point out the truly boring nature of this book that only the relatively absurd comes to mind to pass the time. I enjoy the idea of a female dominated group of First Nation warriors, a more powerful woman who is protective of her wannabe boyfriend and how the story is wrapped up relatively quickly in the end rather than female-Edward dragging things out for three more books like he does in the regular series because he's incredibly asinine. But the writing isn't worth it. I could deal with this in high school, when I knew it was terrible but hadn't read too much actually decent writing and didn't possess much of my ability to critically analyze writing. Post-college doesn't work, though. The writing isn't even passable to allow for a decent story idea to work its way into your heart.
If you've read "Twilight" and you like it, well, this is an opportunity to reread book 1. Maybe you'll spot those typos and things Meyer "fixed". If you haven't read the books, this really isn't worth it. If you want a lesbian vampire romance, go read Sheridan le Fanu's "Carmilla". If you want a gay vampire romance, go read the webcomic "Transfusions". If you want a funny story about vampires and werewolves, watch "What We Do In the Shadows". show less
3.5 Stars
I thought that since I am listening to Midnight Sun I would finally get around to writing reviews for this series. I'll use the same review for all the books.
I read these books about 10 years ago. I liked them enough to buy the entire series and they still sit proudly on my bookshelf. Ten years later and something still sticks out in my mind so vividly as to why I fell for this series.
Stephenie Meyer captured the melodramatic yearny kind of love so incredibly well.
It's not pretty. show more There's anxiety. There's self-doubt. There's fear that it's unrequited. There's crying and staring off into the distance (ala Joey's smell the fart scene from Friends). There's sense defying instalove. It's basically a cluster fudge of emotions. But wasn't it an utterly over the top, self-indulgent, no one in the world knows what I am going through glorious experience! To be fair, you aren't usually worried your love interest will drain you of blood...unless you are dating Dexter...or well, a vampire. I will acknowledge that I had my fair share of yearny love experiences as a teen. I was besotted with a new soul mate every other month. When I was reading some of the cringey inner monologue about the state of affairs in Bella's heart I had to flip to the front cover to make sure I wasn't reading my own journal. I'm sure we have all been there. Well genuinely I hope we have. It's a wonderful, wallowy experience not to be missed. And so that's what struck me as I read it. I saw my own ridiculous self in there. Again, it wasn't the vampire or werewolf thing. It was the messy falling in love thing. Isn't that the one of the marks of a good writer? To draw a reader in and create relatable characters? I never cared about Edward or Joseph, although if pressed I wouldn't choose a panting wet dog. Sorry Team Jacob. I wasn't wowed by the writing, in fact it felt really clumsy in parts, and Bella was a next level 'special snowflake'. So I will just put myself in to Team 'Dramatic Over the Top Ugly Snot Crying Messy Love' and leave it there.
Bravo, Stephenie, bravo. Thanks for the incredibly long walk down memory lane. show less
I thought that since I am listening to Midnight Sun I would finally get around to writing reviews for this series. I'll use the same review for all the books.
I read these books about 10 years ago. I liked them enough to buy the entire series and they still sit proudly on my bookshelf. Ten years later and something still sticks out in my mind so vividly as to why I fell for this series.
Stephenie Meyer captured the melodramatic yearny kind of love so incredibly well.
It's not pretty. show more There's anxiety. There's self-doubt. There's fear that it's unrequited. There's crying and staring off into the distance (ala Joey's smell the fart scene from Friends). There's sense defying instalove. It's basically a cluster fudge of emotions. But wasn't it an utterly over the top, self-indulgent, no one in the world knows what I am going through glorious experience! To be fair, you aren't usually worried your love interest will drain you of blood...unless you are dating Dexter...or well, a vampire. I will acknowledge that I had my fair share of yearny love experiences as a teen. I was besotted with a new soul mate every other month. When I was reading some of the cringey inner monologue about the state of affairs in Bella's heart I had to flip to the front cover to make sure I wasn't reading my own journal. I'm sure we have all been there. Well genuinely I hope we have. It's a wonderful, wallowy experience not to be missed. And so that's what struck me as I read it. I saw my own ridiculous self in there. Again, it wasn't the vampire or werewolf thing. It was the messy falling in love thing. Isn't that the one of the marks of a good writer? To draw a reader in and create relatable characters? I never cared about Edward or Joseph, although if pressed I wouldn't choose a panting wet dog. Sorry Team Jacob. I wasn't wowed by the writing, in fact it felt really clumsy in parts, and Bella was a next level 'special snowflake'. So I will just put myself in to Team 'Dramatic Over the Top Ugly Snot Crying Messy Love' and leave it there.
Bravo, Stephenie, bravo. Thanks for the incredibly long walk down memory lane. show less
This is the only book I have ever pirated instead of checked out of the library/borrowed/bought, since I didn't want to wait for the gazillion teenage girls ahead of me in the public library holds queue to finish *squeee*ing before I got to weigh in on the phenomenon that is this book series. Consider this: I like YA, I like cheesy fantasy and I've read some truly awful fanfiction on the Internet. This book showed me that it's possible for me to dislike a cheesy YA fantasy novel to the point show more of revulsion, and that something far worse than some of the God-awful fanfiction I've read online can make it to publication. I had to force myself to finish the book and I ended up skimming from about halfway through it until the end. As much as I like to pride myself in being a tolerant reader, I've only been able to stomach read summaries for the other books in the series, and it's obvious to me that Stephanie Meyer is projecting her Mormon-tinged romantic and sexual fantasies in her fiction. It wouldn't have been such a bad thing had she not been such a horrific writer and wonderous producer of poorly-conceived characters and plots. I hope this fad fades as much as all others do. show less
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