Author L.J. Smith, who created the 'Vampire Diaries' otherwordly book series that inspired the CW drama of the same name, ...

Lisa Jane Smith "L.J. Smith," the author of the Vampire Diaries book series, died on Saturday, March 8, at 66 years old in Walnut Creek, California. Smith's partner, Julie Divola, as well as her ...

The Vampire Diaries mainly focused on Elena for better or worse, but there's one character who would've been an even better protagonist.

This book caught the attention of Alloy Entertainment, a publishing company now owned by Warner Bros. They later hired Smith to create The Vampire Diaries as a young adult response to the 1994 ...

She wrote seven books in a series that went on to be a ... an author of young adult novels best known for “The Vampire Diaries” series, which became a hit television drama, and for ...

Her books inspired the hit TV show The Vampire Diaries (picture shows the cast of the show)Credit: AF archive The author, who shot to fame with her Vampire Diaries book series, had been suffering ...

That same year, Alloy Entertainment editor Elise Donner commissioned her to begin writingThe Vampire Diaries. The first three books in the series were published in 1991 by HarperCollins ...

LJ Smith, the author whose bestselling Vampire Diaries novels were adapted into ... (Lisa Jane) Smith published the original four-book series, about two vampire brothers and an orphaned young ...

Author L.J. Smith, who created the “Vampire Diaries” book series that inspired the CW drama of the same name and contributed to pop culture’s obsession with vampires, has died. Smith died ...

L.J. Smith, the writer of “The Vampire Diaries” books that were adapted into a television series on The CW, died March 8 at the age of 66. Smith’s partner, Julie Divola, and sister ...

Over the course of her career, Smith wrote more than 29 books and crafted a number of successful series, including Vampire Diaries and Night World. Smith also wrote several trilogies, including ...