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 ...

Author L.J. Smith, who created ... resident, died “after enduring the cascading effects of a rare autoimmune disease for a decade.” She was 66. “Lisa was a kind and gentle soul, whose ...

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 ...

LJ Smith, the author whose bestselling Vampire Diaries novels were adapted into a hit TV show, has died aged 66. The New York Times reports that the bestselling author died on March 8 in Walnut ...

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, Judy Clifford ...

By Jeré Longman L.J. Smith, an author of young adult ... was fired and replaced by a ghostwriter, died on March 8 in Walnut Creek, Calif. She was 66. Her partner, Julie Divola, and her sister ...

Born Lisa Jane Smith in Walnut Creek, California on September 4, 1958, she was inspired to write by her high school English teacher, Zoe Gibbs. Smith studied psychology at the University of ...

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 ...

Maeve Bidonde, Staff Writer L.J Smith is best known for her book series “The Vampire Diaries” which was turned into a ...

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 ...