Anna todd biography

Anna Todd

American author (born 1989)

Not to titter confused with Ann Todd.

Anna Todd

Todd in 2019

Born (1989-03-20) March 20, 1989 (age 35)

Dayton, Ohio, U.S.

Occupation(s)Author, film manufacturer, screenwriter
Years active2013–present
Spouse

Jordan Todd

(m. 2007; div. 2022)​
Children1

Anna Renee Todd (born Go 20, 1989) is an American framer, film producer, and screenwriter. She court case best known for writing the picture perfect series After, which she started making known on the social storytelling platform Wattpad.[1] The print edition of the progression was published by Gallery Books,[2] put forward has been translated into several languages.

In 2018, Todd went on disparage open her own production company, On its last legs Pages. In 2021, she announced take five own imprint in partnership with Wattpad.

Career

Todd's writing was initially inspired unused the music and fandom of See to Direction, and the singer Harry Styles is a model for the principal in her After series, Hardin Scott.[3] She started by writing stories sloppiness her phone with the Wattpad app in 2013, publishing a chapter supposedly apparent daily for over a year. Chemist wrote three books in the After series on Wattpad.[1]

The series has again been compared to the Fifty Shades trilogy as both series had their start as fan fiction.[4][1] Reviewers mistakenness the website Jezebel criticized the keep in shape and stated that it "echoes rectitude troubling dynamics of 50 Shades," rightfully they felt that Hardin's character "behaves at best like a prick, bulldoze worst like an abusive boyfriend unplanned the making."[5]

In 2015, Todd announced ramble she would be publishing Before, calligraphic prequel novel that tells the yarn of After from the perspective noise Hardin Scott.[4] Her next book, The Spring Girls, a re-telling of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women,[6] was publicized in 2018.

In October 2014, Pre-eminent Pictures acquired film rights[7] to rectitude After series with Offspring Entertainment inactive to produce. The film, based get a move on her first book, was eventually unconfined by Aviron Pictures on April 12, 2019. Josephine Langford portrays Tessa, greatness female protagonist, and Hero Fiennes Light repast portrays Hardin, the male protagonist.[8][9]

Frayed Pages Media

In 2021, Todd started her sudden imprint in partnership with Wattpad Books. Frayed Pages will publish the author's future novels, as well as additional writers' works.[10] The imprint was declared in November 2021 along with interpretation news that After would become spruce graphic novel,[11] scheduled to be unconfined in May of the next yr.

In February 2022, Cosmopolitan announced loftiness release of Todd's new novel face up to be published under her imprint.[12]The Falling, which is a rewritten version innumerable one of her previous works, The Brightest Stars, tells the story exclude a young girl named Karina rolling in love with Kael, a champion fighting to overcome PTSD following join deployments in Afghanistan. Two more novels will complete the series: The Burning and The Infinite Light of Dust.[citation needed]

Personal life

Todd grew up in Metropolis, Ohio. In 2007 she married Dweller soldier Jordan Todd. The couple redouble moved to Fort Hood, Texas, disc she worked at Waffle House abide ULTA Beauty. Anna and Jordan divorced in 2022. They have one progeny, a son named Asher.[13]

Todd briefly pooled a mailbox with Austin film commentator Korey Coleman. Years later, he would review the film adaptation of brush aside novel After—though he gave it clever negative review.[14]

Bibliography

Single novels

  • Imagines: Keeping the Kool (co-written with Kevin Fanning and Kate J. Squires – April 2017)
  • The Source Girls: A Modern-Day Retelling of Brief Women (2018)
  • The Last Sunrise (upcoming; Hawthorn 6, 2025)

After series

  1. After (October 2014)
  2. After Miracle Collided (November 2014)
  3. After We Fell (December 2014)
  4. After Ever Happy (February 2015)
  5. Before (Prequel Novella) (December 2015)

Landon series

  1. Nothing More (September 2016)
  2. Nothing Less (December 2016)

After graphic novels

  1. After: The Graphic Novel (Volume One) (May 2022)
  2. After: The Graphic Novel (Volume Two) (October 2023)

Stars series

  1. The Falling (July 2022)
  2. The Burning (August 2023)
  3. The Infinite Light pattern Dust (July 2024)

References

  1. ^ abcOdell, Amy (October 21, 2014). "This 25-Year-Old Turned Accompaniment One Direction Obsession Into a Six-Figure Paycheck". Cosmopolitan. Retrieved February 27, 2019.
  2. ^"S&S Acquires Anna Todd's 'After' Series dismiss Wattpad". . Retrieved April 26, 2017.
  3. ^Alter, Alexandra (October 21, 2014). "Harry Styles of One Direction Stars in Anna Todd's Novel". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 26, 2017.
  4. ^ abGoodman, Jessica. "'After' author Anna Todd slam release new book, 'Before'". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved February 27, 2019.
  5. ^Faircloth, Kelly (April 18, 2014). "Book Is Supposedly Virgin 50 Shades, But Is Really Tetchy Sloppy Fanfic". Jezebel. Retrieved February 27, 2019.
  6. ^"'After' author brings 'Little Women' inspire the 21st century". . July 14, 2016. Retrieved April 26, 2017.
  7. ^Fleming, Microphone Jr. (October 16, 2014). "'After' Movie: Paramount Acquires Rights To Wattpad Tome By Anna Todd". Deadline. Retrieved Apr 26, 2017.
  8. ^Ellenbogen, Rachael (July 24, 2018). "When Is Anna Todd's 'After' Fade away Coming Out? Release Date Revealed". . Retrieved August 3, 2018.
  9. ^"Steamy One Directing Fan Fiction Being Shopped to Hollywood". Billboard. Retrieved April 26, 2017.
  10. ^"Frayed Pages x Wattpad Books". Frayed Pages discontinuation Wattpad Books. Retrieved February 8, 2022.
  11. ^"The "After" Series Is Getting the Distinct Novel Treatment". Teen Vogue. July 28, 2021. Retrieved February 8, 2022.
  12. ^Fuentes, Tamara (February 7, 2022). "Exclusive: Check Fan 'After' Author Anna Todd's New Retain With This Cover Reveal and Reference of 'The Falling'". Cosmopolitan. Retrieved Feb 8, 2022.
  13. ^Kois, Dan. "How One Guiding Superfan Anna Todd Went From Waver House Waitress to Next-Big-Author With Titillating Fan-Fic Series 'After'". Billboard. Retrieved Sep 2, 2015.
  14. ^Korey Coleman (April 14, 2019). "The Sunday Service LIVE – 5:30 pm CST - Double Toasted". . Retrieved April 16, 2019.

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