Who is Stephenie Meyer?
Friday August 8th’s WSJ lists her as the author of 4 of the 6 top selling “fiction” books this week. She is clearly well known to thousands of teenage girls – who devour her books.
WSJ’s Donna Freitas writes
As clergy and parents and even a few teachers struggle to make a case for abstinence among the young, it may seem strange that Ms Meyer has served up one of the most compelling and effective arguments for abstinence in mainstream American culture – through a teen vampire romance.
Stephenie is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (or Mormon) and it has a huge influence on who she is and her perspective on the world, and therefore what she writes (though she has been asked more than once, “What’s a nice Mormon girl like you doing writing about vampires?”).
