The Twilight Collection by Stephenie Meyer

Googling helped her find names for her other old-fashioned immortal characters and a place for them to live: “someplace ridiculously rainy.” Ferrars in “Sense and Sensibility,” and Isabella, the name Meyer had been reserving for a daughter.

She finished the first draft in late August and eventually found names for her protagonists: Edward, inspired by “Jane Eyre’s” Mr. On June 2, 2003, Meyer woke up from the dream that started it all.Īs she tells it on her website, “I didn’t want to lose the dream, so I typed out as much as I could remember, calling the characters ‘he’ and ‘she.’” How to watch the 'Twilight' movies: Where they're streaming, movie order and which is best 'Twilight' was written in three months The books spawned five movies, which grossed $3.4 billion worldwide, according to IMDB’s Box Office Mojo.Īnd it all started with “a very vivid dream” one hot summer night in Arizona. The series became an international bestseller, with more than 160 million copies sold as of 2021, according to Publishers Weekly. 5, 2005 “New Moon,” “Eclipse” and “Breaking Dawn” were released in quick succession over the next three years. Her debut novel, “Twilight,” was published on Oct.

Over the course of three months, in between shuttling her sons to their summer activities, a then-unknown Stephenie Meyer - a Chaparral High School and Brigham Young University graduate who’d grown up in Phoenix - wrote the story of how those two characters fall in love despite the bloodlust that consumes Edward Cullen, an immortal 17-year-old who was attending high school in Forks, Washington, where Bella Swan had moved to live with her father.ĭespite Meyer’s doubts about the story ever seeing the light of day, book publishers and moviemakers alike quickly saw the potential in this fantasy love story: In December 2003, Meyer signed an unprecedented book deal with Little, Brown Children’s Books. Nearly 20 years ago, a mom of three living in Glendale, Arizona, woke up from a dream about an average teenage girl and a “fantastically beautiful” vampire boy talking about their budding romance in a meadow. View Gallery: 'Twilight' timeline: From Arizona mom's debut novel to blockbuster

The Twilight Collection by Stephenie Meyer