Net Worth
American author Stephenie Meyer has a $120 million dollar net worth. The “Twilight” book series, which has sold more than 100 million copies worldwide and was converted into an equally successful film series, was written by Stephenie, one of the best-selling fiction authors of all time. Meyer received approximately $40 million in book and film royalties just in 2010 and 2011. Her books sold the most copies of any author worldwide in 2008 and 2009. In addition to her children’s books, Stephenie has written two adult books, “The Host” (2008) and “The Chemist” (2016), as well as a novella, “The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner” (2010). She is also a well-known film producer. She established the production business Fickle Fish Films in 2011, and it has since produced both “Breaking Dawn” motion pictures (2011 and 2012), “The Host” and “Austen land” as well as the 2018 film “Down a Dark Hall” and the upcoming television version of “The Chemist.” Meyer was named one of the 100 most powerful persons in the world by “Time” magazine in 2008, and “Forbes” named her one of the 100 most influential celebrities the following year.
Early Life
In Hartford, Connecticut, on December 24, 1973, Stephenie Morgan was born. With her mother Candy, father Stephen (a financial professional), and five siblings, she grew up in Phoenix, Arizona. In 1992, Stephenie, who attended Chaparral High School, was awarded a National Merit Scholarship. She studied at Utah’s Brigham Young University, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature in 1997. Meyer attended Arizona State University as well. Her sole previous employment before penning the “Twilight” books was working as a receptionist.
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Biography
| Celebrated Name: | Stephenie Meyer |
| Real Name: | Stephenie Meyer |
| Age: | 49 Years Old |
| Gender: | Female |
| Date of Birth: | 24 December 1973 |
| Birth Place: | Hartford, Connecticut, United States |
| Nationality: | American |
| Sexual Orientation: | Straight |
| Marital Status: | Married |
| Height: | 1.63 M |
| Weight: | 56 Kg |
| Profession: | American Novelist and Film Producer |
| Net Worth: | $130 Million |
Family
| Parents: | Mother: Candy Morgan Father: Stephen Morgan |
| Siblings: | Yes, (5) |
| Husband: | Christian Meyer |
| Children: | Yes, (3) |
Personal Life
Stephenie Meyer, then age 21, wed Christiaan Meyer, whom she had first known as a young child at church, in 1994. Christiaan quit from his position as an auditor to care for their three sons, Gabe, Seth, and Eli after Stephanie’s career took off. Meyer, who was raised in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, abstains from drinking, smoking, caffeine, and watching R-rated movies, and the characters in the “Twilight” books do the same. The world is a better place when women are in leadership positions, according to feminist Stephenie. However, feminists have criticised her since Bella isn’t in charge of her life in the “Twilight” novel and is dependent on Edward to protect her and after their marriage is complete, sustains physical harm.
Career
According to Meyer, she had a dream about a “average girl” and a “fantastically beautiful, sparkly” vampire (who would later be identified as Bella Swan and Edward Cullen) talking about how they were falling in love and how the vampire was drawn to the smell of the girl’s blood, which was driving him to want to kill her. Before returning to write the first 12 chapters of “Twilight,” she produced a first draft of what would eventually become the novel’s thirteenth chapter. Stephenie joined the American Night Authors Association, an organisation for budding female writers who are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, while she was writing the book, and she completed her first in just three months.
Meyer was convinced to do so by her sister, and she contacted 15 literary agencies. Nine of them gave her rejection letters, and five of them never responded. Genevieve, a writer’s home assistant, gave her one helpful response after originally asking for the first three chapters of the book before requesting the entire manuscript. When Writers House literary agent Jodi Reamer contacted Meyer about representing “Twilight” and forwarded the manuscript to nine publishers, Little, Brown and Company granted Stephenie a three-book deal worth $750,000. On “The New York Times” Children’s Chapter Books best selling list, “Twilight” debuted on October 5, 2005, and surged fast to #5 before eventually taking the top spot. Twilight was named “Publishers Weekly’s” Best Book of the Year, and in 2006, Stephenie released “New Moon,” which stayed nearly a year on “The New York Times” Children’s Chapter Books list. Breaking Dawn, her fourth book, was published in 2008 after the release of Eclipse, her third book. A staggering 1.3 million copies of Breaking Dawn were sold on the first day of release.
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Author Jordan Scott served Meyer with a cease and desist order in 2009, accusing her of plagiarizing her work and saying that several sections of “Breaking Dawn” resembled the premise of her vampire novel, “The Nocturne.” In response to Stephanie’s claim that she was unaware of Scott or her work, Scott failed to produce a copy of “The Nocturne” to support her claim. The “Twilight” series has been translated into 37 other tongues, and in 2008 and 2009, the books ranked first through fourth on the “USA Today” list of the year’s best-selling books. Five films based on the novels have been made, and together they have made more than $3.3 billion at the box office. The first “Twilight” book to be written from Edward’s point of view rather than Bella’s was published by Meyer in 2020, and it quickly sold more than a million copies.
