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Meg Cabot

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http://www.goodreads.com/MegCabot

born

February 01, 1967 in Bloomington, Indiana, The United States

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female

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http://www.megcabot.com/

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Literature & Fiction, Young Adult, Romance

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May 2011

About this author

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Librarian note: AKA Jenny Carroll (1-800-Where-R-You series), AKA Patricia Cabot (historical romance novels).

Meg Cabot was born on February 1, 1967, during the Chinese astrological year of the Fire Horse, a notoriously unlucky sign. Fortunately she grew up in Bloomington, Indiana, where few people were aware of the stigma of being a fire horse -- at least until Meg became a teenager, when she flunked freshman Algebra twice, then decided to cut her own bangs. After six years as an undergrad at Indiana University, Meg moved to New York City (in the middle of a sanitation worker strike) to pursue a career as an illustrator, at which she failed miserably, forcing her to turn to her favorite hobby--writing novels--for emotional succor. She worke...more Librarian note: AKA Jenny Carroll (1-800-Where-R-You series), AKA Patricia Cabot (historical romance novels).

Meg Cabot was born on February 1, 1967, during the Chinese astrological year of the Fire Horse, a notoriously unlucky sign. Fortunately she grew up in Bloomington, Indiana, where few people were aware of the stigma of being a fire horse -- at least until Meg became a teenager, when she flunked freshman Algebra twice, then decided to cut her own bangs. After six years as an undergrad at Indiana University, Meg moved to New York City (in the middle of a sanitation worker strike) to pursue a career as an illustrator, at which she failed miserably, forcing her to turn to her favorite hobby--writing novels--for emotional succor. She worked various jobs to pay the rent, including a decade-long stint as the assistant manager of a 700 bed freshmen dormitory at NYU, a position she still occasionally misses.

She is now the author of nearly fifty books for both adults and teens, selling fifteen million copies worldwide, many of which have been #1 New York Times bestsellers, most notably The Princess Diaries series, which is currently being published in over 38 countries, and was made into two hit movies by Disney. In addition, Meg wrote the Mediator and 1-800-Where-R-You? series (on which the television series, Missing, was based), two All-American Girl books, Teen Idol, Avalon High, How to Be Popular, Pants on Fire, Jinx, a series of novels written entirely in email format (Boy Next Door, Boy Meets Girl, and Every Boy's Got One), a mystery series (Size 12 Is Not Fat/ Size 14 Is Not Fat Either/Big Boned), and a chick-lit series called Queen of Babble.

Meg is now writing a new children's series called Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls. Her new paranormal series, Abandon, debuts in Summer of 2011.

Meg currently divides her time between Key West, Indiana, and New York City with a primary cat (one-eyed Henrietta), various back-up cats, and her husband, who doesn't know he married a fire horse. Please don't tell him.

Series:
* Airhead
* The Princess Diaries
* Mediator
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Questions! Have I read Shades of Grey? How do my book covers get chosen? Will there be a spanking robot in the next Underworld book? When’s my next book tour? How’s Henrietta? Etc.

I wasn’t able to get to all of your questions during my live video chat on Goodreads (but thanks to all of you who came! I hope you got to see Henrietta—her visit might have gotten cut off at the end due to her dislik...

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Books by Meg Cabot

Average rating: 3.77 · 531,876 ratings · 31,345 reviews · 128 distinct works

	The Princess Diaries (The Princess Diaries, #1) 3.67 avg rating — 43,356 ratings — published 2000 — 71 editions	My rating:
	All-American Girl (All-American Girl, #1) 3.71 avg rating — 21,640 ratings — published 2002 — 36 editions	My rating:
	Size 12 Is Not Fat (Heather Wells, #1) 3.68 avg rating — 19,184 ratings — published 2005 — 23 editions	My rating:
	Shadowland (The Mediator, #1) 4.09 avg rating — 16,568 ratings — published 2000 — 35 editions	My rating:
	Queen of Babble (Queen of Babble, #1) 3.67 avg rating — 16,934 ratings — published 2006 — 24 editions	My rating:
	Avalon High 3.84 avg rating — 15,843 ratings — published 2006 — 29 editions	My rating:
	Princess in the Spotlight (The Princess Diaries, #2) 3.61 avg rating — 16,296 ratings — published 2000 — 52 editions	My rating:
	The Boy Next Door (Boy, #1) 3.80 avg rating — 15,673 ratings — published 2002 — 33 editions	My rating:
	Princess in Love (The Princess Diaries, #3) 3.69 avg rating — 15,107 ratings — published 2001 — 54 editions	My rating:
	Twilight (The Mediator, #6) 4.27 avg rating — 12,373 ratings — published 2004 — 24 editions	My rating:

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Series by Meg Cabot

The Princess Diaries (10 books)
by Meg Cabot (Goodreads Author)

3.67 avg rating — 159,780 ratings

The Mediator (6 books)
by Meg Cabot (Goodreads Author)

4.15 avg rating — 77,010 ratings

Heather Wells (4 books)
by Meg Cabot (Goodreads Author)

3.73 avg rating — 35,749 ratings

Queen of Babble (3 books)
by Meg Cabot (Goodreads Author)

3.73 avg rating — 34,553 ratings

Boy (3 books)
by Meg Cabot (Goodreads Author)

3.76 avg rating — 31,232 ratings

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Meg Cabot made a comment on her review of Home to Woefield: A Novel "So glad you liked it! It's one of my favorites. Meg "
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Meg Cabot gave to: Miss Smithers (Alice MacLeod, #2) by Susan Juby	My rating:
I'm pretty sure this is the one where she buys the leather pants. Or is the one with Jesus bus? Either way, I think I wet my pants, I was laughing so hard.
Apr 12, 2012 03:05pm · see review
Meg Cabot gave to: Home to Woefield: A Novel by Susan Juby	My rating:
This book was so amazing. I read it on a flight and was still reading it in baggage claim as I waited for my luggage. I couldn't put it down. Just a gentle, funny read about a girl who inherits the world's worst farm and is determined to make it work...more
Apr 12, 2012 03:03pm · see review
Meg Cabot gave to: Getting the Girl: A Guide to Private Investigation, Surveillance, and Cookery by Susan Juby	My rating:
Apr 12, 2012 02:58pm
Meg Cabot gave to: Alice, I Think (Alice MacLeod, #1) by Susan Juby	My rating:
Apr 12, 2012 02:58pm
Meg Cabot gave to: More Like Her by Liza Palmer	My rating:
Loved this. Agree with reviewers who found it shocking...shocking but good. Did NOT expect the twist. Love all of Liza's books.
Apr 12, 2012 02:57pm · see review
Meg Cabot gave to: Ghost Flower by Michele Jaffe	My rating:
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Meg Cabot gave to: In Search of the Rose Notes: A Novel by Emily Arsenault (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
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Meg Cabot gave to: I'd Know You Anywhere by Laura Lippman (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
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Quotes by Meg Cabot

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that
something else is more important than fear.”
― Meg Cabot

tags: courage , fear , inspirational

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“The fact is, I love him. He's the boy I want and one day he'll be MINE.”
― Meg Cabot, Princess in Training

tags: romance

1,048 people liked it

“Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.”
― Meg Cabot

tags: writing

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6 votes 14.3%

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Moon Called by Patricia Briggs

6 votes 14.3%

Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin

5 votes 11.9%

Shadowland by Meg Cabot

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