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E L James is an incurable romantic and a self-confessed fan girl. After twenty-five years of working in television, she decided to pursue a childhood dream and write stories that readers could take to their hearts. The result was the controversial and sensuous romance Fifty Shades of Grey and its two sequels, Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed. In 2015, she published the #1 bestseller Grey, the story of Fifty Shades of Grey from the perspective of Christian Grey, and in 2017, the chart-topping Darker, the second part of the Fifty Shades story from Christian's point of view. Her books have been published in fifty languages and have sold more than 165 million copies worldwide.
E L James has been recognized as one of Time magazine's "Most Influential People in the World" and Publishers Weekly's "Person of the Year." Fifty Shades of Grey stayed on The New York Times Best Seller List for 133 consecutive weeks. Fifty Shades Freed won the Goodreads Choice Award (2012), and Fifty Shades of Grey was selected as one of the 100 Great Reads, as voted by readers, in PBS's The Great American Read (2018). Darker was long-listed for the 2019 International Dublin Literary Award.
She was a producer on each of the three Fifty Shades movies, which made more than a billion dollars at the box office. The third installment, Fifty Shades Freed, won the People's Choice Award for Drama in 2018. E L James is blessed with two wonderful sons and lives with her husband, the novelist and screenwriter Niall Leonard, and their West Highland terriers in the leafy suburbs of West London.If you think Stephenie Meyer was bad, consider that E. L. James became famous writing Twilight fanfiction: More specifically, a dreadful Twilight fanfic which not only repeats the same flaws of its predecessor (Unlikeable leads, lots of padding, a romance filled with lots of unfortunate implications, etc.) but somehow manages to be even worse than its source of inspiration.- Writer
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Anna Todd (writer/producer/influencer) is the New York Times best-selling author of the After series, which has been released in 35 languages and has sold more than twelve million copies worldwide-becoming a #1 best-seller all over the world. Todd is also the author of The Spring Girls and The Stars Series, which includes The Falling, The Burning, and the upcoming conclusion to the series, Infinite Light Of Dust. Always an avid reader, Todd began writing stories on her phone through Wattpad, with After becoming the platform's most-read series with over two billion reads. She has served as a producer and screenwriter on the film adaptations of After and After We Collided, and in 2017, she founded the entertainment company Frayed Pages Media to produce innovative and creative work across film, television, and publishing. A native of Ohio, she lives with her son in Los Angeles.Because the world needs crappy One Direction fanfics being turned into movies.- Writer
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Christopher Paolini was born on 17 November 1983 in Los Angeles County, California, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Eragon (2006), To Sleep in a Sea of Stars and Eragon.Some say the "Eragon" movie did not make justice the book in which it was inspired, but honestly, that book was bad to begin with.- Producer
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Stephenie born in Connecticut in 1973. Her family was settled in Phoenix by the time she was four. The unusual spelling of her name came from her father, Stephen ( + ie).
Stephenie went to high school in Scottsdale, Arizona. She was awarded a National Merit Scholarship, and she used it to pay her way to Brigham Young University, in Provo, Utah. She majored in English.
Stephenie met her husband, Pancho, when she was four, but they only saw each other weekly through church activities. When they finally got around to exchanging words, sixteen years after their first meeting, it only took nine months from the first "hello" to the wedding.
They have been married for ten and a half years now, and have three boys. Gabe is eight, Seth is five, and Eli is three.
Twilight is her very first novel. New Moon is the second book in the series, Eclipse the third. The fourth book Breaking Dawn was released in August 2008.I know it's a bit cliché to include her in this kind of lists, but has to be done.
Anyway, the sparkling vampire saga isn't even entertaining to read in my opinion.
Still a better writer than E.L. James, anyway.- Writer
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Paulo Coelho was born on 24 August 1947 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro [ex-Federal District], Brazil. He is a writer and actor, known for The Experimental Witch (2009), The Pilgrimage and Amante Latino (1979). He has been married to Christina Oiticica since 1980.A glorified self-help book author.- Writer
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Dan Brown was born on 22 June 1964 in Exeter, New Hampshire, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Inferno (2016), The Da Vinci Code (2006) and Angels & Demons (2009). He was previously married to Blythe Newlon.- Writer
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Jack Chick was born on 13 April 1924 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for Hot Chicks (2006), Alberto: A Série (2022) and The Light of the World (2003). He was married to Lynn Priddle and Susie. He died on 23 October 2016 in Alhambra, California, USA.- Actor
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Andrew Tate was born in Washington DC, US. Andrew is a controversial online personality, former professional kickboxer, television personality, actor known for Kings of the Internet (2022) and brother of Tristan Tate. He began offering paid courses and memberships through his website and later rose to fame as an Internet celebrity.I know it's a bit of a stretch calling this clown a "writer", but has to be done.