Anna Todd

In October 2014, Paramount Pictures acquired film rights to the After series with Offspring Entertainment (Step Up franchise, Rock of Ages) set to produce. The movie, based on her first book, came out on April 12, 2019. Josephine Langford portrays Tessa, the female protagonist, and Hero Fiennes-Tiffin portrays Hardin, the male protagonist.

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. Her next book, The Spring Girls, a re-telling of Louisa Alcott's Little Women, was published in 2018.

Todd's writing was initially inspired by the music and fandom of One Direction, and the singer Harry Styles is one of the protagonists in her After series, under the name 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 series on Wattpad.

Anna Renee Todd (born March 20, 1989) is an American author who is best known as the author of the After series. She started publishing on the social storytelling platform Wattpad. The print edition of the series was published in 2014 by Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster and has been translated into several languages. The film adaptation of the first book was released on April 12, 2019, by Aviron Pictures