Meg Cabot

Meggin Patricia Cabot (born February 1, 1967) is an American novelist.

She has written and published over 50 novels of young adult and adult fiction and is best known for her young adult series The Princess Diaries, which was later adapted by Walt Disney Pictures into two feature films.

Cabot has been the recipient of numerous book 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, and many others.

She has also had number-one New York Times bestsellers, and more than 25 million copies of her books are in print across the world.

Meggin Patricia Cabot was born on February 1, 1967, in Bloomington, Indiana.

After she graduated from Indiana University, Cabot moved to New York City, with the original aim of pursuing a career as an illustrator.

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 an elopement in Italy.

Her novel Every Boy's Got One is loosely based on her elopement.

The first book in the series was published in October 2000; the series spent 48 weeks on the New York Times Children's Series Best Sellers List and was sold to publishers in 37 foreign countries.

In 2021 Time Magazine named The Princess Diaries one of the 100 Best YA Books of All Time.

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.

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

Illustrated by Chelsey McLaren:

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The first four books were later reprinted under Cabot's real name in 2005 with new cover art when Twilight was released in hardcover.

The UK titles for the series were: Shadowland- Love You to Death, Ninth Key- High Stakes, Reunion- Mean Spirits, Darkest Hour- Young Blood, Haunted- Grave Doubts, and Twilight- Heaven Sent.

]] On January 6, 2009, a companion book to Volume X: Forever Princess entitled Ransom My Heart was published under the name Princess of Genovia, Mia Thermopolis by Avon Books, the adult division of HarperCollins, the Princess Diaries series publisher.

All author proceeds from the novel, which was printed on 100% recycled paper, go to Greenpeace.

Cabot has published a spin-off middle grade series titles "From the Notebooks of a Middle School Princess", taken from the point of view of Mia's long-lost sister, Olivia Grace.

As listed above, there are 4 books in the series.

The Mediator Series is about a 16-year-old girl named Susannah "Suze" Simon.

Suze is a mediator, whose role is to help ghosts finish their business on earth so they can pass on to the afterlife.

To this end, she can see, touch, communicate with, hit, punch, and 'kick ghost butt' when she must.

The series begins just after Suze's widowed mother marries Andy Ackerman, so Suze has moved to Carmel, California, to live in an old house complete with three stepbrothers.

To make matters worse, her bedroom is haunted by an attractive male ghost named Jesse de Silva, who died 150 years earlier.

Suze remembers that back in New York, a fortune teller had told her that she was a mediator (which proved correct) and that she would only fall in love once, but it would last for an eternity.

The first four books were originally released under the pseudonym Jenny Carroll (this was when Cabot was working with different publishing houses).

Haunted was the first title to have Meg Cabot's name on it.

In December 2010, HarperTeen reprinted an omnibus edition titled The Mediator: Shadowland and Ninth Key.

This series revolves around Jessica Mastriani, an ordinary 16-year-old girl given extraordinary psychic powers after being struck by lightning.

Her powers allow her to know the exact location of missing children; after seeing a picture of a person, they appear in her dreams.

She has cats, Henrietta (a one-eyed cat) (1993-Jan 2013), and Gem, about whom she often blogs.

After living in Indiana, California, New York, and France, she now lives in Key West, FL with her husband.

Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls series is about 9-year-old Allie Finkle, who has to contend with moving from her suburban home to an old Victorian house, starting a new school, and making new friends.

From the Notebooks of a Middle School Princess is a series for "tween" readers featuring Princess Mia's half-sister, Olivia Grace.

The books are illustrated by Meg Cabot.

The Princess Diaries series is the most critically acclaimed series written by Meg Cabot and has been published in more than 40 countries.