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Stephenie Meyer was born in Connecticut in 1973. Her family moved to the Phoenix area when she was four, and she has lived there every since. She is the second eldest child in a family of six, having two sisters and three brothers. She attended Brigham Young University on a National Merit Scholarship majoring in English, but concentrating on literature rather than creative writing. She has known her husband, Christian – or Pancho as everyone calls him, ever since she was four years old, but didn’t have much of a real relationship with him until she was older. They were married in 1994 and now have three beautiful sons; Gabe, Seth, and Eli. They are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Twilight is her first book, but there will be at least two more books in Twilight series. The idea for Twilight came to her in a dream on the night of June 2, 2003. In the dream, she saw what eventually became Chapter 13 of Twilight. She started writing out the details of the dream, calling her two characters only “he” and “she” as they were unnamed. From that point on she wrote something every day until she was able to fill in the rest of the story. She started editing the book, writing several epilogues to the point where she realized she wasn’t ready to let the characters go and that there was more story to tell. She sent the book out to publishers and was eventually signed to Little, Brown and Company for a three book deal. From dream to deal, it took about six months for Twilight to become a reality. It was in stores a short eighteen months later. For more information on Stephenie Meyer and the conception of the book Twilight, visit www.stepheniemeyer.com