Meggin Patricia Cabot, known professionally as Meg Cabot, was born and raised in Bloomington, Indiana, USA. She is the daughter of Barbara and C. Victor Cabot, a college professor. Meg spent time living in Grenoble, France and Carmel, California, the setting for her bestselling Mediator series, before moving to New York City after graduating with a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from Indiana University.

Meg worked for ten years as an assistant residence hall director at New York University, an experience from which she occasionally draws inspiration for her Heather Wells mystery series. Her most famous work, The Princess Diaries series, was made into two hit movies by Disney, sold over 20 million copies, and has been translated into 38 languages.

She also authored the 1-800-Where-R-You? series, reprinted under the title Vanished, which was adapted into the Lifetime series called Missing. Meg has written numerous other award-winning, best-selling stand-alone books and series, including All-American Girl and Avalon High, on which an original Disney Channel movie was based.

Her recent works include the tween hit Allie Finkle’s Rules for Girls, the YA trilogy Airhead, and Abandon, the first book in a new paranormal series for young adult readers. Insatiable, Meg’s first paranormal romance for adult readers, was followed by a sequel, Overbite.

Meg Cabot is a #1 New York Times bestselling author of books for both adults and tweens/teens. She married financial writer and poet Benjamin D. Egnatz on April 1, 1993, and currently resides in Key West with her husband and two cats.