Twilight Life of Stephenie Meyer, the World's Biggest Author

For a woman who has sold more than 85 million books and has been hailed as the new J. K. Rowling, Stephanie Meyer's home is remarkably modest.

For a woman who has sold more than 85 million books and has been hailed as the new J. K. Rowling, it is a remarkably modest home. Set down a dusty dirt trail, the four-bedroom property blends seamlessly into the desert landscape – low and sand-coloured with just a few cacti for decoration. Only a high-tech camera and newly installed metal gates give some hint of the occupant’s desire for privacy.

Here, in the remote town of Cave Creek, Arizona, is where Stephenie Meyer chooses to live, in a house she has shared with her husband and three children for the past decade.

A cursory glance at the bestseller lists on both sides of the Atlantic shows Meyer is, as Time magazine declared, “the publishing phenomenon of the new century.”

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