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 ...

LJ Smith, the author whose bestselling Vampire Diaries novels were adapted into a hit TV show ... (Lisa Jane) Smith published the original four-book series, about two vampire brothers and an orphaned ...

Lisa Jane Smith "L.J. Smith," the author of the Vampire Diaries book series, died on Saturday, March 8, at 66 years old in ...

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 ...

vampire books soared in popularity. By 2007, sales of “The Vampire Diaries,” published in the early 1990s, had gone up.Credit...HarperCollins She kept writing other young adult series until ...

Her books inspired the hit TV show The Vampire Diaries (picture shows the cast of the show)Credit: AF archive The author, who shot to fame with her Vampire Diaries book series, had been suffering ...

L.J. Smith, the author of the Vampire Diaries novels as well as dozens of other young-adult fiction books, has died at the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The New York Times best-seller died on March 8 in Walnut Creek, Calif, after suffering the effects of a rare autoimmune disease for a decade.

Smith published over 24 books and reportedly ... reclaiming her own original characters through the emerging medium of fan fiction. The Vampire Diaries was among the most prolific television ...