Anna Todd


Anna Renee Todd is an American author who is best known as the author of the After series. She started publishing on the social storytelling platform Wattpad. The print edition of the series was published in 2014 by Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster and has been translated into several languages. The film adaptation of the first book was released on April 12, 2019, by Aviron Pictures

Career

Todd's writing was initially inspired by the music and fandom of One Direction, and the singer Harry Styles is one of the protagonists in her After series, under the name Hardin Scott. She started by writing stories on her phone with the Wattpad app in 2013, publishing a chapter almost daily for over a year. Todd wrote three books in the After series on Wattpad.
The series has sometimes been compared to the Fifty Shades trilogy as both series had their start as fan fiction. Reviewers at the website Jezebel criticized the series and stated that it "echoes the troubling dynamics of 50 Shades," as they felt that Hardin's character "behaves at best like a prick, at worst like an abusive boyfriend in the making".
In 2015 Todd announced that she would be publishing Before, a prequel novel that tells the events of After from the perspective of Hardin Scott. Her next book, The Spring Girls, a re-telling of Louisa Alcott's Little Women, was published in 2018.
In October 2014, Paramount Pictures acquired film rights to the After series with Offspring Entertainment set to produce. The movie, based on her first book, came out on April 12, 2019. Josephine Langford portrays Tessa, the female protagonist, and Hero Fiennes-Tiffin portrays Hardin, the male protagonist.

Personal life

Todd grew up in Dayton, Ohio. She married her husband Jordan, an American soldier, at 18 and the two moved to Fort Hood, Texas, where she worked at a Waffle House and the makeup counter of ULTA Beauty. She has a son named Asher with her husband. She also has an older brother and younger sister.
Todd briefly shared a mailbox with Austin film critic Korey Coleman. Years later, he would review the film adaptation of her novel After, though he gave it a negative review.

Novels