Anna Renee Todd (born March 20, 1989) is an American author and screenwriter, who is best known for her ''

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'' series. She started publishing on the social storytelling platform

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. The print edition of the series was published in 2014 by

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, an imprint of

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, and has been translated into several languages. The film adaptation of the first book was released on April 12, 2019, by

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, the

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in September 2020 and third in September 2021. In 2018, Todd went on to open her own production company, Frayed Pages. In 2021, the company evolved and she announced her own imprint in partnership with

. Frayed Pages x Wattpad Books will publish the author's future projects, as well as other writers works.

Career

Todd's writing was initially inspired by the music and fandom of

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, and the singer

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is a model for the protagonist in her ''After'' series, under the name Hardin Scott. She started by writing stories on her phone with the Wattpad app in 2013, publishing a chapter almost daily for over a year. Todd wrote three books in the ''After'' series on Wattpad. The series has sometimes been compared to the ''Fifty Shades'' trilogy as both series had their start as

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. Reviewers at the website

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criticized the series and stated that it "echoes the troubling dynamics of ''50 Shades''," as they felt that Hardin's character "behaves at best like a prick, at worst like an abusive boyfriend in the making." In 2015, Todd announced that she would be publishing ''Before'', a prequel novel that tells the events of ''After'' from the perspective of Hardin Scott. Her next book, ''The Spring Girls'', a re-telling of Louisa May Alcott's ''

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'', was published in 2018. In October 2014,

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acquired film rights to the ''After'' series with Offspring Entertainment (''Step Up'' franchise, ''Rock of Ages'') set to produce. The

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, based on her first book, was eventually released by

on April 12, 2019.

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portrays Tessa, the female protagonist, and

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portrays Hardin, the male protagonist.

Frayed Pages Media

In 2021, Todd started her own imprint in partnership with Wattpad Books. Frayed Pages will publish the author's future novels, as well as other writers' works. The imprint was announced in November 2021 along with the news that ''After'' would become a graphic novel, scheduled to be released in May of the next year. In February 2022, ''Cosmopolitan'' announced the release of Todd's new novel to be published under her imprint. ''The Falling'', which is a rewritten version of one of her previous works, ''The Brightest Stars'', tells the story of a young girl named Karina falling in love with Kael, a soldier fighting to overcome

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following three deployments in

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. Two more novels will complete the series: ''The Burning'' and ''The Infinite Light of Dust''.

Personal life

Todd grew up in Dayton, Ohio. In 2007, she married her ex-husband Jordan, an American

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, when she was 18 years old and the two then moved to

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, Texas, where she worked at a Waffle House and at a

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counter for

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. She has a son named Asher with her ex-husband. Todd announced their split via Instagram on June 30, 2022. She also has an older brother and younger sister. Todd briefly shared a mailbox with Austin film critic

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. Years later, he would review the film adaptation of her novel ''After'', though he gave it a negative review.

Bibliography

Single novels

* ''Imagines: Keeping the Kool'' (co-written with Kevin Fanning and Kate J. Squires – April 2017) * ''The Spring Girls: A Modern-Day Retelling of Little Women'' (2018)

''After'' series

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'' (October 2014) #''

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'' (November 2014) #''After We Fell'' (December 2014) #''After Ever Happy'' (February 2015) #''Before'' (Prequel Novella) (December 2015)

Landon series

*''Nothing More'' (September 2016) *''Nothing Less'' (December 2016)

Stars series

# ''The Falling'' (July 2021) # ''The Burning'' (TBA) # ''The Infinite Light of Dust'' (TBA)

Graphic Novels

# ''After: The Graphic Novel (Volume One)'' (May 2022)

References

External links

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