Anna Todd | |
|---|---|
| Born | March 29, 1989 Dayton, Ohio, U.S. |
| Occupations | Author, film producer, screenwriter, influencer |
| Years active | 2013–present |
| Spouse |
Jordan Todd
(m. 2007; div. 2022)Jinwook Hong (m. 2025) |
| Children | 1 |
| Website | https://annatodd.com/ |
Anna Renee Todd (born March 20, 1989) is an American novelist who is The New York Times bestselling author of the After series, the Brightest Stars trilogy, The Spring Girls, and The Last Sunrise. Todd began writing stories on her phone through Wattpad, with After becoming the platform's most-read series with over two billion reads. She has served as a producer and screenwriter on the film adaptations of After[1] and After We Collided and is a producer on the film Regretting You from Paramount Pictures and the upcoming film The Last Sunrise for Amazon MGM studios.
In 2017, she founded the entertainment company Frayed Pages Media to produce work across film, television, and publishing.
In 2021, Todd announced Frayed Pages Media would be partnering with Wattpad for her publishing imprint, Frayed Pages x Wattpad Books, publishing 11 works as of 2025.
Career
Todd's writing was initially inspired by the music and fandom of One Direction, and the singer Harry Styles is a model for the protagonist in her After series, Hardin Scott.[2] She started by writing stories on her phone with the Wattpad app in 2013, publishing a chapter almost daily for over a year. Todd wrote three books in the After series on Wattpad.[1]
The series has sometimes been compared to the Fifty Shades trilogy as both series had their start as fan fiction.[3][1] Reviewers at the website Jezebel criticized the series and stated that it "echoes the troubling dynamics of 50 Shades," as they felt that Hardin's character "behaves at best like a prick, at worst like an abusive boyfriend in the making."[4]
In 2015, Todd announced that she would be publishing Before, a prequel novel that tells the events of After from the perspective of Hardin Scott.[3] Her next book, The Spring Girls, a re-telling of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women,[5] was published in 2018.
In October 2014, Paramount Pictures acquired film rights to the After series with Offspring Entertainment set to produce.[6] The film, based on her first book, was eventually released by Aviron Pictures on April 12, 2019. Josephine Langford portrays Tessa, the female protagonist, and Hero Fiennes Tiffin portrays Hardin, the male protagonist.[7][8]
Frayed Pages Media
In 2021, Todd started her own imprint in partnership with Wattpad Books. Frayed Pages will publish the author's future novels, as well as other writers' works.[9] The imprint was announced in November 2021 along with the news that After would become a graphic novel,[10] scheduled to be released in May of the next year.
In February 2022, Cosmopolitan announced the release of Todd's new novel to be published under her imprint.[11] The Falling, which is a rewritten version of one of her previous works, The Brightest Stars, tells the story of a young girl named Karina falling in love with Kael, a soldier fighting to overcome PTSD following three deployments in Afghanistan. Two more novels will complete the series: The Burning and The Infinite Light of Dust.[citation needed]
Personal life
Born March 20, 1989, Todd was born and raised in Dayton, Ohio. In 2007 at the age of 18, she married her first husband, Jordan. With her husband having joined the army, the two moved to Fort Hood, Texas. Anna and Jordan divorced in 2022.[12] The couple has one child, a son named Asher.
Todd's son Asher has Tuberous Sclerosis.[13] Tuberous Sclerosis is a rare genetic disorder that causes noncancerous tumors to develop in many parts of the body that are not expected. Symptoms vary widely, depending on where the growths develop and how large the tumors grow.
In August 2025, Anna remarried. She married Jinwook Hong in Santa Barbara, California, with her son at her side.[14] She announced that she had gotten married on her Instagram account with a carousel of her wedding photos.
Todd and her husband, Jinwook, along with her son Asher and golden doodle Winnie, live in the Los Angeles area.
Bibliography
Single novels
- Imagines: Keeping the Kool (co-written with Kevin Fanning and Kate J. Squires – April 2017)
- The Spring Girls: A Modern-Day Retelling of Little Women (2018)
- The Last Sunrise (May 6, 2025)
After series
- After (October 2014)
- After We Collided (November 2014)
- After We Fell (December 2014)
- After Ever Happy (February 2015)
- Before (Prequel) (December 2015)
Landon series
- Nothing More (September 2016)
- Nothing Less (December 2016)
After graphic novels
- After: The Graphic Novel (Volume One) (May 2022)
- After: The Graphic Novel (Volume Two) (October 2023)
Stars series
- The Falling (July 2022)
- The Burning (August 2023)
- The Infinite Light of Dust (July 2024)
References
- ^ a b c Odell, Amy (October 21, 2014). "This 25-Year-Old Turned Her One Direction Obsession Into a Six-Figure Paycheck". Cosmopolitan. Retrieved February 27, 2019.
- ^ Alter, Alexandra (October 21, 2014). "Harry Styles of One Direction Stars in Anna Todd's Novel". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 26, 2017.
- ^ a b Goodman, Jessica. "'After' author Anna Todd to release new book, 'Before'". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved February 27, 2019.
- ^ Faircloth, Kelly (April 18, 2014). "Book Is Supposedly New 50 Shades, But Is Really Just Sloppy Fanfic". Jezebel. Retrieved February 27, 2019.
- ^ "'After' author brings 'Little Women' into the 21st century". EW.com. July 14, 2016. Retrieved April 26, 2017.
- ^ Fleming, Mike Jr. (October 16, 2014). "'After' Movie: Paramount Acquires Rights To Wattpad Book By Anna Todd". Deadline. Retrieved April 26, 2017.
- ^ Ellenbogen, Rachael (July 24, 2018). "When Is Anna Todd's 'After' Movie Coming Out? Release Date Revealed". ibtimes.com. Retrieved August 3, 2018.
- ^ "Steamy One Direction Fan Fiction Being Shopped to Hollywood". Billboard. Retrieved April 26, 2017.
- ^ "Frayed Pages x Wattpad Books". Frayed Pages x Wattpad Books. Retrieved February 8, 2022.
- ^ "The "After" Series Is Getting the Graphic Novel Treatment". Teen Vogue. July 28, 2021. Retrieved February 8, 2022.
- ^ Fuentes, Tamara (February 7, 2022). "Exclusive: Check Out 'After' Author Anna Todd's New Book With This Cover Reveal and Excerpt of 'The Falling'". Cosmopolitan. Retrieved February 8, 2022.
- ^ Fisher, Paul (August 29, 2023). "The Against All Odds Story of Anna Todd, Author of the Best Selling After Series of Books". Ventura Blvd. Retrieved January 7, 2026.
- ^ "Tuberous sclerosis - Symptoms and causes". Mayo Clinic. Retrieved November 21, 2025.
- ^ "'After' Series Author Anna Todd Marries Hong Jinwook with Her Son by Her Side". People.com. Retrieved January 7, 2026.
