Biography
Fans of the series "Vampire Diaries" The appearance of favorite heroes are obliged by the American writer Lisa Jane Smith. The author wrote an impressive series dedicated to the adventures of the charming representatives of an ancient unclean. In addition, her bibliography has dozens of books that combine fantasy, mystical and love motives.Childhood and youth
The writer was born in Orange County, California. Her childhood passed in Villa Park - a small town where a little more than 5 thousand people lived. The comfort and security of this place was not constrained by the fantasy of the girl, but, on the contrary, they encouraged her to dream of dangerous adventures that could merge behind each turn of the road. From an early age, she was read by the works of John Ronalda Ruel Tolkina and Klyiv Steiplza Lewis, who gave her hope for the existence of the fairytale worlds separated from the ordinaryness of an invisible and fragile face.
The girl attended high school, where she began to demonstrate talent to writing. At least, the teacher of the verbost Zoe Gibbs assured her in the fact that she could write books. In 14 years, the student composed stories and poems, and in her imagination, exciting conflicting characters were constantly crowded who demanded incarnation on paper. However, graduating from school, Lisa studied not on the writer, but on an experimental psychologist.
The girl received the first diploma in the University of California Santa Barbara, and then learned to the primary and corrective education teacher at the University of San Francisco. Smith did not give to write while studying, and then work, but it was not hurry to publish. When Macmillan's publisher concluded a contract with her to publish the first book, Lisa Jane left the place of primary school teacher and fully focused on writing.
Personal life
The personal life of the heroes of Lisa Jane is familiar to boiling as a boiling boiler. Everything is obsessed with passion, contradictions and fatal attractions. The writer itself leads a modest, quiet and secluded life. Her house is located in Northern California, where a woman lives together with a dog and three cats, and with thousands of books that have become her faithful companions in life.Smith accounted for difficult tests. She survived the death of Mother and other close people who died from cancer, and for many years devoted to the care of nephews left without parents. In 2015, the woman itself was diagnosed with polyanhibition granulomatosis - severe and rapidly progressive autoimmune disease associated with inflammation of vessel walls.
Books
The writing biography of Smith began with the book "Night Solstice", published in 1987. The idea of this novel she was hatching from school times. The continuation was published in the 1990th and got the name "Valiant Heart". The main characters of the dilogy, brother and three sisters, live in a quiet safe town, where hostile forces of the wild world are unexpectedly awakened. Bright characters, confrontation of good and evil, supernatural forces and unpredictable plot - in this combination there is a special charm of naive, but attractive works that adolescents are reading.
The debut did not bring the writer widely known, but the publishers saw the potential in the beginning the author and ordered her a series of novels about the representatives of the ancient unclean, which appear in the usual American town. So the idea of the "Vampire Diaries" was born - a cycle, which brought worldwide fame and recognition writer. The first volume of the series came out in 1991 and was called "Awakening". The continuation of the story did not make himself wait for a long time - "hunger" and "rage" came out in the same year.
The central characters of the saga were brothers from an ancient family of vampires, which appear in the provincial town of Mystic Falls and lead to the heart of Helen's main beauty. Combination of heroes and solving problems that are drawn from the dark past, four books are devoted.
Following this, Lisa Jane began work on the "Secret Circle" cycles, "Forbidden Game", "Dark Visions" and "Night Kingdom". When in 2008 the shooting of the Vampire Diaries series began, Smith returned to the long history and began to write a continuation. A new wave of popularity has come to the author, which brought her books in the bestseller lists.
Lisa Jane Smith now
Bibliography Lisa Jane was not replenished since 2011. It is known that the Alloy Entertainment Publishing House, which owns the rights to the "Vampire Diaries", was terminated by Smith's contract and instructed the continuation of the Ghost Listful Writers. This caused a protest among readers who refused to buy books to which the creator of the cycle had no longer had any relationship, although her photo was still decorated with the covers.Now nothing is known about the new books of the author. Its official site has long been replenished with fresh content. At the same time, in 2020, the Warner Bros film company. announced that bought the rights to the decreement of fantasy novels of the American from the "Forbidden Game" series.
The trilogy includes Toma "Hunter", the "chase" and "murder" is devoted to the adventures of Young Jenny, who, together with friends, turns out to be drawn into a dark and dangerous game.
This works are inherent in everything that the readers and viewers appreciate the creativity Smith: young and bright heroes, an unpredictable plot, who beats the eternal confrontation of light and darkness, conflict, in the process of which transformation and rebirth of characters occur. Fans are looking forward to when the Lisa Jane filmography will be replenished with a new bright project.
Bibliography
- 1987 - "Night Solstice"
- 1990 - "Valorous Heart"
- 1991 - "The Vampire Diaries. Awakening"
- 1991 - "The Vampire Diaries. Rage
- 1992 - "Ritual"
- 1994 - "Hunter"
- 1995 - "Obsession"
- 1996 - "Secret Vampire"
- 2009 - "The Vampire Diaries. Return: Darkness comes "
- 2011 - "The Vampire Diaries. Return: Midnight »