Meg Gabot
Meg's Biography
Meg Cabot was born on February 1, 1967, during the Chinese astrological year of
the Fire Horse, a notoriously unlucky sign. Fortunately she grew up in
Bloomington, Indiana, where few people were aware of the stigma of being a fire
horse-at least until Meg became a teenager, when she flunked freshman Algebra
twice, then decided to cut her own bangs. After six years as an undergrad at
Indiana University (a college to which she was only accepted because her father
taught there), Meg moved to New York City (in the middle of a sanitation worker
strike) to pursue a career as an illustrator, at which she failed miserably,
forcing her to turn to her favorite hobbywriting novelsfor emotional succor.
She worked various jobs to pay the rent, including a decade-long stint as the
assistant manager of a 700 bed freshmen dormitory at NYU, a position she still
occasionally misses.
She is now the author of over forty books for both adu...