Smith was born in Florida. Her father was a football star at Clemson university. Her father was a business man and this had them moving a lot. They end up living in south California and she lived there until she moved to North California. Smith always known she was going to be a writer even as a kid. She made up stories and act them out with kids. When she was eight she started reading adult books. She also believe in finding magic, her favorite books were the ones about magic. When she was 6 and 12 year old she thought she was going to find magic but she didn't. So She than decided to make it herself and that's when she started making short story, poetry and everything about fiction, magic and science fiction. Smith wrote so many series of the vampire Diaries. She wrote The secret Circle, The Forbidden Game, Dark Visions, The Wildworld, Night World and The fury and Dark reunion which is the book I reed. I believe that in the book the author sees herself in all her characters. I realized that she put some of her characterics or personalities in her characters. It sames like she is building the person she would be if she could've made herself.