Marissa Meyer
1984
When Marissa Meyer was in her teenage years, she had discovered anime and fanfiction—throughout the years she developed a hobby of creating her own fan fictions like the one’s she read. When Meyer was of age to work, her first job was at The Old Spaghetti Factory in Tacoma, Washington. Later on she attended Pacific Lutheran University and her new job was to be a mail attendant. Her stay at the University was rewarded with a Bachelor’s degree in Creative Writing and Children’s Literature. It was then that she realized she wanted a career as a novelist; she continued her schooling until she got her master’s degree and settled as an editor in Seattle after graduation. As an unlikely result, Meyer then became a freelance typesetter and proofreader. Days went by, and eventually the right offer struck; making CINDER her first debut novel in the Lunar Chronicles.