A statement on her website said she died “peacefully” on March 8 ... before the then teacher was asked to write The Vampire Diaries volumes by a book packager. She wrote further books in ...

‘The Vampire Diaries’ was famously adapted into a TV series starring Ian Somerhalder (left), Nina Dobrev and Paul Wesley in the late 2000s (Moviestore/Shutterstock) ...

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 ...