L.J. Smith, the author of “The Vampire Diaries” books that have been tailored right into a tv sequence on The CW, died March 8 on the age of 66.
Smith’s accomplice, Julie Divola, and sister, Judy Clifford, confirmed the demise to The New York Occasions. Smith had an extended bout with an autoimmune illness and died in Walnut Creek, Calif.
Smith was born Sept. 4, 1958, as Lisa Jane Smith, in Florida and grew up in California. She studied experimental psychology at College of California, Santa Barbara and initially labored as a particular schooling and kindergarten instructor.
The primary novel Smith revealed was “The Night time of the Solstice,” a fantasy e book that she had begun as a highschool scholar. It led to a take care of Alloy Leisure to jot down “The Vampire Diaries.” The sequence began off with three books revealed in 1991, adopted by the fourth in 1992.
The TV adaptation debuted in 2009 and continued till 2017. Nina Dobrev starred as Elena Gilbert, who catches the attention of vampires Damon Salvatore (Ian Somerhalder) and Stefan Salvatore (Paul Wesley).
Though Smith had solely acquired a small advance for the primary few books in “The Vampire Diaries” sequence, she had one other take care of Alloy Leisure within the 2000s to increase it with a trilogy addition. She was dismissed in 2011, and the remainder of the sequence was ghostwritten.
Smith later turned to writing fan fiction from the “Vampire Diaries” world as a method to additional what she’d beforehand constructed. Divola advised The New York Occasions that Smith was “very harm and indignant” when a ghostwriter took over the sequence.
Smith additionally penned the younger grownup sequence “Darkish Visions” and “Night time World” in addition to “The Secret Circle” (the premise of one other however short-lived CW adaptation). The author additionally completed a novel referred to as “Lullaby” and two extra “Night time World” books earlier than her demise.
Smith is survived by her accomplice, sister, a nephew, a niece and grand nephew.
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