“All of my characters are a little bit based on people I know in real life. You know when you do that you have to change the character a little bit in case your friend or your relative reads the book, because you don't want them to know you wrote about them... They might get mad.”

American novelist, contemporary

Meggin Patricia Cabot is an American novelist known for young adult and adult fiction. She is best known for The Princess Diaries series, which was later adapted into two Walt Disney Pictures films. Cabot has written and published more than 80 novels and has received numerous book awards, including honors from the New York Public Library, the American Library Association, the Tennessee Volunteer State TASL Book Award, the Book Sense Pick, the Evergreen Young Adult Book Award, and the IRA/CBC Young Adult Choice. Her books have also reached number one on The New York Times bestseller list, and more than 25 million copies are in print worldwide.