Dreaming Big



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Stephenie Meyer, the author of New Moon, was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1973 on Christmas Eve. She was the second oldest of six children and was raised Mormon. When she was four, she moved with her family to Phoenix, Arizona. She attended Brigham Young University and in 1997 received a degree in English. At the time she began writing, Stephenie was a stay at home mom of three who had no aspirations of becoming a famous writer. Her first novel, Twilight, was inspired by a dream she had in June 2003 which eventually became the meadow seen (chapter 13) and was the first part of the book that she wrote. It took only three months to write the five hundred-page manuscript for her first novel—which she worked on mostly while her children slept. She has written six books (Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn, The Host, and The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner) in the last eight years, all of which either have been made into or are in the process of becoming movies.