title: Before (The After Series)
author:  Anna Todd 
description: Anna Todd is the<i> New York Times</i>bestselling author of the After series,<i>The Spring Girls</i>and<i>The Brightest Stars</i>. Always an avid reader, she began writing stories on her phone on Wattpad, the reading and writing multi-platform for original stories, with<i>After</i> becoming the most read series on the platform with over 1.5 billion reads.<i>After</i>has been published in over 30 languages, with more than 10 million copies sold worldwide, and is a #1 bestseller in Italy, Germany, France, and Spain. The film adaptation of<i>After</i>, which Anna is co-producing, is set to be released in early 2019. Anna and her husband currently live in Los Angeles.<br /> <br /> Find her at AnnaTodd.com, on Twitter at @Imaginator1d, on Instagram at @Imaginator1d, and on Wattpad as Imaginator1D.
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  Praise for New York Times and #1 international bestselling author Anna Todd
  and her After series
  
  
  “Todd [is] the biggest literary phenom of her generation.”
  
  
  —Cosmopolitan
  
  
  “I was almost at the point like with Twilight that I just stop everything and
  my sole focus was reading the book. . . . Todd, girl, you are a genius!!!”
  
  
  —Once Upon a Twilight
  
  
  “The Mr. Darcy and Lizzy Bennet of our time. . . . If you looked up ‘Bad Boy’
  in the fiction dictionary, next to it would be a picture of Hardin alongside
  Beautiful Bastard and Mr. Darcy.”
  
  
  —That’s Normal
  
  
  “The one thing you can count on is to expect the unexpected.”
  
  
  —Vilma’s Book Blog
  
  
  “Anna Todd manages to make you scream, cry, laugh, fall in love, and sit in
  the fetal position. . . . After is a can’t-miss book—but get ready to feel
  emotions that you weren’t sure a book could bring out of you.”
  
  
  —Fangirlish
  
  
  “A very entertaining read chock-full of drama drama drama. . . . This book
  will h