High School: Bloomington High School South
Has lived in Indiana, California and New York (USA) and France.
Owns a house in Key West, Florida (USA) and an apartment in New York City, NY (USA).
Owns a one-eyed cat named Henrietta and a cat her neighbor gave her named Gem (or Jemima).
When asked her age, Meg responds by saying she has the same birth date as Princess Stephanie of Monaco, minus 2 years.
Before she was published, Meg worked as an assistant dorm manager at New York University.
Was awarded one of the Top Ten Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers selection, Best Book selection, American Library Association, and New York Public Library Teen Book for the New Millennium citation, all 2001, all for "The Princess Diaries." "The Princess Diaries" was also voted "one of the nation's 100 best-loved novels" by the British public as part of the "The Big Read," British Broadcasting Corporation, 2003.
Received the Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Award for Best British Isles Historical Romance, 1999, for "An Improper Proposal."
Cabot has more than 15 million copies of her books - both young adult and adult - in print worldwide.
In 1991, she received a B.A. from Indiana University.
On a book tour for her newest YA standalone novel "How to be Popular." [September 2006]
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