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Meg Cabot : biography

February 1, 1967 –

Meg Cabot (born Meggin Patricia Cabot on February 1, 1967 in Bloomington, Indiana, United States. Notablebiographies.com. Retrieved on 2012-12-31.. Historicalromancewriters.com (2012-12-03). Retrieved on 2012-12-31.) is an American author of romantic and paranormal fiction for teens and adults and used to write under several pen names, but now writes exclusively under her real name, Meg Cabot. She has written and published over fifty books, and is best known for The Princess Diaries, later made by Walt Disney Pictures into two feature films of the same name. Meg’s books have been the recipients of numerous awards, including the New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age, the American Library Association Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers, the Tennessee Volunteer State TASL Book Award, the Book Sense Pick, the Evergreen Young Adult Book Award, the IRA/CBC Young Adult Choice – as well as many others (see awards section for specific book wins).. Megcabot.com. Retrieved on 2012-12-31.. Megcabot.com (2002-09-01). Retrieved on 2012-12-31. She has had numerous #1 New York Times bestsellers. Cabot has more than fifteen million copies of her books—children’s, young adult, and adult—in print worldwide.

Personal life

After Meg graduated from Indiana University, Cabot moved to New York City, with the original aim of pursuing a career as an illustrator. in 1991. However, she soon quit this job and started working as an assistant manager of the freshman dormitory at New York University.

Meg Cabot married financial writer and poet Benjamin D. Egnatz on April 1, 1993. Their wedding date, April Fool’s Day, was a deliberate play on her husband’s belief that only fools get married in the first place. The wedding was actually an elopement in Italy. Her novel Every Boy’s Got One is loosely based on her own elopement. She has two cats, Henrietta (a one eyed cat) and Gem, about whom she often blogs.

After living in Indiana, California, New York, and France, she now splits her time between New York, Key West, Florida and Bloomington, Indiana., Meg Cabot

Publications

Young adult novels

The Princess Diaries series

The Princess Diaries series is the most notable series written by Meg Cabot, and has been published in more than 40 countries.. Cosmogirl.com (1967-02-01). Retrieved on 2012-12-31. The first book in the series was published in October 2000; the series spent 38 weeks on the New York Times Children’s Series Best Sellers List and was sold to publishers in 37 foreign countries.

In 2001 and 2004 respectively, the series was brought to the big screen by Walt Disney Pictures as The Princess Diaries and The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement starring Anne Hathaway and Julie Andrews.

Note that in the UK and Australia the books are published under titles based on the volume number (e.g.: Mia Goes Fourth).

  • The Princess Diaries, Volume I / The Princess Diaries (October 2000)
  • Volume II: Princess in the Spotlight / The Princess Diaries: Take Two (June 2001)
  • Volume III: Princess in Love / The Princess Diaries: Third Time Lucky (March 2002)
  • Volume IV: Princess in Waiting / The Princess Diaries: Mia Goes Fourth (April 2003)
    • Volume IV and 1/2: Project Princess (August 2003)
  • Volume V: Princess in Pink / The Princess Diaries: Give Me Five (March 2004)
  • Volume VI: Princess in Training / The Princess Diaries: Sixsational (March 2005)
    • Volume VI and 1/2: The Princess Present (October 2004)
  • Volume VII: Party Princess / The Princess Diaries: Seventh Heaven (March 2006)
    • Volume VII and 1/2: Sweet Sixteen Princess (May 2006)
    • Volume VII and 3/4: Valentine Princess (December 2006)
  • Volume VIII: Princess on the Brink / The Princess Diaries: After Eight (January 2007)
  • Volume IX: Princess Mia / The Princess Diaries: To The Nines (January 2008)
  • Volume X: Forever Princess / The Princess Diaries: Ten Out Of Ten (January 6, 2009)