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 Creek, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

By Jeré Longman L.J. Smith, an author of young adult novels best known for “The Vampire Diaries” series, which became a hit television drama, and for repossessing her characters by writing ...

But Smith didn’t realize at the time that the work was for hire; she didn’t own the characters or the copyright. When vampire books experienced a resurgence in popularity during the mid-2000s ...

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 March 8 ...

Her The Vampire Diaries series became a global phenomenon, particularly after it was adapted into a successful television ...

Lisa Jane Smith, acclaimed for 'The Vampire Diaries,' has died at 66. Renowned for her supernatural fiction, Smith lost creative control of her series but later reclaimed it through fan fiction.