L?.J. Smith, the writer who created the Vampire Diaries novels has died. She was 66.
Her accomplice, ?Julie Divola and her sister, Judy Clifford, informed The New York Occasions that Smith handed away in hospital after battling the signs of a uncommon autoimmune illness for a decade.
Her dying has additionally been confirmed on her web site.?
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“Gone, however not forgotten. Lisa Jane Smith of Danville, California handed away peacefully on Saturday, March 8, 2025, after an extended bout with sickness,” an announcement on the web site learn.
Born to folks Kathryn J. Smith and Glenn C. Smith in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Smith was raised within the small city on Villa Park in Southern California.
She went on to obtain a Bachelor of Arts diploma in Experimental Psychology from the College of California at Santa Barbara in 1987, adopted by her instructing credentials from San Francisco State College, based on her web site.
She pursued a profession as a kindergarten and particular training instructor for a number of years earlier than turning into a full-time writer however her love for writing got here lengthy earlier than that.
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Smith stated she realised she wished to be a author between kindergarten and first grade after a “instructor praised a horrible poem [she’d] written”.
She went on to make that occur.?
Smith authored greater than two dozen novels all through her lifetime which she printed underneath her pen identify L. J. Smith and have become a New York Occasions bestselling writer of young-adult fiction.
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Of all her books, Smith is finest identified for the 13 books she penned within the Vampire Diaries collection. The novel collection went on to be tailored right into a broadly profitable TV collection The Vampire Diaries.
The TV collection, which starred Nina Dobrev, Ian Somerhalder and Paul Wesley, went on to grow to be one of many largest vampire TV collection of the late 2000s and early 2010s ?alongside the likes of Buffy and True Blood.
Alongside the Vampire Diaries collection, Smith can be well-known for her Evening World collection. She additionally penned three trilogies; The Secret Circle, Darkish Visions and The Forbidden Sport in addition to the Wildworld books, The Evening of the Solstice and Coronary heart of Valor.
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“Her novels not solely entertained but in addition supplied solace and inspiration, making her a cherished companion to readers all over the world,” the assertion on her web site learn.
“Lisa was a form and delicate soul, whose brilliance, creativity, resilience and empathy, illuminated the lives of her household, pals and followers alike,” the assertion later learn.
“She will likely be remembered for her imaginative spirit, her pioneering function in supernatural fiction and her generosity, heat and coronary heart, each on and off the web page.”
She is survived by Divola and different relations.
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