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 ...

Author LJ Smith, whose best-selling Vampire Diaries novels were turned into a hit TV show, has died at the age of 66. Lisa Jane Smith published the original four-book series, about a love triangle ...

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

Smith started out her career as a teacher at a US elementary school but quit after three years to pursue a writing career in 1989. Her final books in both The Vampire Diaries and Secret Circle series ...

New York Times Best-Selling author L.J. Smith, who is best known for writing The Vampire Diaries book series, has died. She was 66 years old. As The New York Times reports, Smith—who was born ...

Smith later turned to writing fan fiction from the “Vampire Diaries” world as a way to further what she’d previously built. Divola told The New York Times that Smith was “very hurt and ...

Years after entering the literary scene, Smith took a hiatus from writing to deal with family matters, including her mother's death. She reentered the world of "Vampire Diaries" in 2007 amid the ...