Meg Cabot - Children's Author

Meg Cabot is the author of The Princess Diaries series as well as several other novels for teenagers. Her books have sold millions of copies round the world - and two million in the UK alone.

Cabot was born in Bloomington, Indiana, to college professor C. Victor and Barbara Cabot. In 1991, Cabot received a B.A. from Indiana University.

Meg Cabot married financial writer and poet Benjamin D. Egnatz on April 1, 1993. Their wedding date (April Fool’s Day) was a deliberate play on her husband's belief that only fools get married in the first place. The wedding was actually an elopement in Italy. Her novel Every Boy's Got One is loosely based on her own elopement.

Before she published her first book, Meg worked as an assistant dorm manager at New York University. After living in Indiana, California, New York, and France, she now currently resides in Key West, Florida. with her husband and one-eyed cat, Henrietta.

In May 2006, the Harvard Crimson released reports that 19-year-old author Kaavya Viswanathan borrowed passages from Cabot's Princess Diaries series, and other books, to place in her novel How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life. Viswanathan's novels were subsequently pulled from the shelves.

Cabot has also written many books for teens, including The Princess Diaries series, which has won many awards, and her recently completed series, The Mediator.

Author photo © Ali Smith

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Featured Books, with extracts by Meg Cabot

Abandon
Meg Cabot
The first book in the brand-new dark and dangerously seductive trilogy from bestselling teen author Meg Cabot, now in paperback! It's dark paranormal romance at its best and combined with Meg's brilliant storytelling powers we think she's hit the jackpot....
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Format: Paperback - Released: 26/04/2012
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Abandon
Meg Cabot
The first book in the brand-new dark and dangerously seductive trilogy from bestselling teen author Meg Cabot.  It's dark paranormal romance at its best and combined with Meg's brilliant storytelling powers we think she's hit the jackpot.  She paints a...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2011
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Airhead: Runaway
Meg Cabot
From the author of the hugely successful Princess Diaries, this trilogy for 11+ year olds featuring two girls, one of whom finds herself inside the body of the other and doing things she could never imagine doing.  Now Em,...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2011
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Airhead: Runaway
Meg Cabot
From the author of the hugely successful Princess Diaries, this trilogy for 11+ year olds featuring two girls, one of whom finds herself inside the body of the other and doing things she could never imagine doing.  Now Em,...
Featured in: 11+ readers | Books of the Month | eBooks
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/06/2010
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Allie Finkle's Rules For Girls: Moving Day
Meg Cabot
Allie Finkle is going to be the talk of the playground for 8-10 year olds as is her creator Meg Cabot, for at long last this brilliant bestselling author of The Princess Diaries has written a novel for younger readers. Allie...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/03/2010
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Allie Finkle's Rules For Girls: The New Girl
Meg Cabot
Allie is a brilliant heroine who 7+ year old girls will love and really look up to. She’s full of adventure, quite precocious and at times her army of family and friends despair of her. At times it’s laugh-out-loud funny...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/03/2010
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Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls: Best Friends and Drama Queens
Meg Cabot
An irresistible picture of friendship, school, families and, above all, the overpowering need to belong and so to know the rules is here created by the narrator Allie. Allie is looking forward to the arrival of a new girl in...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/03/2010
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Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls: Stage Fright
Meg Cabot
A new title in this best-selling series full of appeal for all cool and clever girls who like to be sure they are doing the right thing. This time Allie Finkle sets out her rules for how everyone should behave...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/03/2010
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Airhead: Being Nikki
Meg Cabot
Step right into the celebrity life of teenage supermodel Nikki. Apparently the golden girl of the catwalk Nikki looks like an absolute airhead but that’s just the surface. Underneath there’s nerdy Emmerson Watts who somehow got trapped in the wrong...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/09/2009
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Airhead: Being Nikki
Meg Cabot
Step right into the celebrity life of teenage supermodel Nikki. Apparently the golden girl of the catwalk Nikki looks like an absolute airhead but that’s just the surface. Underneath there’s nerdy Emmerson Watts who somehow got trapped in the wrong body and is...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 11/07/2009
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Airhead
Meg Cabot
From the creator of Allie Finkle and The Princess Diaries comes a brand new novel featuring two very different girls, one a superbrain and the other a supermodel. They have absolutely nothing in common until something extraordinary happens. Meg cabot’s trademark wit is here...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/06/2009
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The Princess Diaries: Ten Out of Ten
Meg Cabot
The final title in the hugely successful Meg Cabot series featuring Mia, a very normal 14 year old Manhatten school girl, who is suddenly pitched into being Princess Mia of the priniciplity of Genovia with everything at her finger tips - except perhaps...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 10/01/2009
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Airhead
Meg Cabot
From the creator of Allie Finkle and The Princess Diaries comes a brand new novel featuring two very different girls, one a superbrain and the other a supermodel. They have absolutely nothing in common until something extraordinary happens. Meg cabot’s...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/09/2008
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The Princess Diaries: To the Nines
Meg Cabot
The ninth in the hugely successful Meg Cabot series featuring Mia, a very normal 14 year old Manhatten school girl, who is suddenly pitched into being Princess Mia of the priniciplity of Genovia with everything at her finger tips - except perhaps the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/08/2008
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How To Be Popular
Meg Cabot
We’ve chosen a double dose of Meg Cabot this month for we felt both titles deserved equal billing.  How to be Popular is an absolute must for every teenager – Being popular isn’t too tricky but staying popular is much...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/04/2008
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Tommy Sullivan Is A Freak
Meg Cabot
New and exhilarating teen story from the author that brought you Jinx and How to Be Popular. Tommy Sullivan is back in town but he is no longer the Freak he was once labelled in school, in fact Katie Ellison...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 04/04/2008
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Jinx
Meg Cabot
Meg has once again excelled herself.  Teenagers everywhere will love the world of Jinx.  Named Jinx because all her life she’s never had any luck; nothing goes according to plan, in fact everything goes wrong.  So when she heads for...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 07/09/2007
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The Princess Diaries: Seventh Heaven
Meg Cabot
The seventh title in this fantastic Princess Diaries series has finally arrived. Shades of a teenage Bridget Jones, but she really is a Princess, with Mia continuing to make a right royal mess of most social situations. It's not...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/06/2007
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The Princess Diaries: After Eight
Meg Cabot
The eighth title in this fantastic Princess Diaries series. If you’re looking for books to get a reticent reader into the reading experience then the Princess Diaries series is a great way to do that. This is number eight but there...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/06/2007
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Missing You
Meg Cabot
Another hit by Meg Cabot, one of two Cabot novels we feel should not be missed by teenagers this month.  Jess has featured in the other Missing titles in the series but with her powers gone she doesn’t feel able...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/04/2007
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The Princess Diaries Sixsational
Meg Cabot
The sixth in the hugely successful Meg Cabot series featuring Mia, a very normal 14 year old Manhatten school girl, who is suddenly pitched into being Princess Mia of the priniciplity of Genovia with everything at her finger tips - except perhaps the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/06/2005
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The Princess Diaries: Give Me Five
Meg Cabot
The fifth in the hugely successful Meg Cabot series featuring Mia, a very normal 14 year old Manhatten school girl, who is suddenly pitched into being Princess Mia of the priniciplity of Genovia with everything at her finger tips - except perhaps the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/06/2004
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The Princess Diaries: Mia Goes Fourth
Meg Cabot
The fourth in the hugely successful Meg Cabot series featuring Mia, a very normal 14 year old Manhatten school girl, who is suddenly pitched into being Princess Mia of the priniciplity of Genovia with everything at her finger tips - except perhaps the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/09/2002
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The Princess Diaries: Third Time Lucky
Meg Cabot
The third in the hugely successful Meg Cabot series featuring Mia, a very normal 14 year old Manhatten school girl, who is suddenly pitched into being Princess Mia of the priniciplity of Genovia with everything at her finger tips - except perhaps the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/12/2001
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The Princess Diaries: Take Two
Meg Cabot
The second in the hugely successful Meg Cabot series featuring Mia, a very normal 14 year old Manhatten school girl, who is suddenly pitched into being Princess Mia of the priniciplity of Genovia with everything at her finger tips - except perhaps the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/09/2001
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The Princess Diaries
Meg Cabot
The first in the hugely successful Meg Cabot series featuring Mia, a very normal 14 year old Manhatten school girl, who is suddenly pitched into being Princess Mia of the priniciplity of Genovia with everything at her finger tips -...
Featured in: 11+ readers | eBooks
Format: Paperback - Released: 08/06/2001
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