Meg Cabot 

Meg Cabot was born on February 1, 1967, during the Chinese astrological year of the Fire Horse, a notoriously unlucky sign. Fortunately she grew up in Bloomington, Indiana, where few people were aware of the stigma of being a fire horse—at least until Meg became a teenager, when she flunked freshman algebra twice, then decided to cut her own bangs. After six years as an undergrad at Indiana University (a college to which she was only accepted because her father taught there), Meg moved to New York City (in the middle of a sanitation worker strike) to pursue a career as an illustrator, at which she failed miserably, forcing her to turn to her favorite hobby – writing novels – for emotional succor. She worked various jobs to pay the rent, including a decade-long stint as the assistant manager of a 700-bed freshmen dormitory at NYU, a position she still occasionally misses.

She is now the author of nearly fifty books for both adults and teens, many of which have been bestsellers, most notably The Princess Diaries (Harper) series, which is currently being published in over thirty-eight countries, has sold over five million copies worldwide, and was made into two hit movies by Disney.  In addition, Meg wrote the Mediator (Harper) and 1-800-Where-R-You? (Simon & Schuster/Harper) series (on which the television series Missing was based); two All-American Girl books: Teen Idol and Avalon High (which has a manga series sequel) (Harper); How to Be Popular (Harper); Pants on Fire (Harper); Jinx (Harper); a series of novels written entirely in email format: Boy Next Door, Boy Meets Girl, and Every Boy’s Got One (Harper); a mystery series: Size 12 Is Not Fat, Size 14 Is Not Fat Either, Big Boned (Harper); a chick-lit series called Queen of Babble (Harper); and a new middle-grade series called Allie Finkle’s Rule for Girls (Scholastic).

Meg now divides her time between Indiana, Key West, and New York City with a primary cat (one-eyed Henrietta), various back-up cats, and her husband, who doesn’t know he married a fire horse. Please don’t tell him.

http://www.megcabot.com