Anna Todd

About

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 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.

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. 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…