Maryam Wells

Maryam Wells is an is an American author, fashion designer, beauty salon owner. She re-vamped the All About Us series from an short-lived TV show to an popular teen novel series.

Biography

Maryam Wells was born in Los Angeles, California, the third child and first daughter of Eddie (who died of cancer in 2014) and Patty Wells. She has three siblings; Mikey (1983-1995), Byron (b. 1986), and Tiffany (b. 1994).

Wells graduated from Susan Miller Dorsey High School in 2008. She originally planned to attend Los Angeles Trade Technical College and majored in fashion design, but after the loss of her father, she changed her major to theatre and attended Los Angeles City College. But after a few class sessions, Wells lost interest in pursuing theatre and left LA City College. She had planned on making a return to LA Trade Tech and re-major in fashion. She returned to Trade Tech and majored in Cosmetology, she also took sewing classes.

Writing

Although she had an career as an stage, film, and T actress, Wells was also an teen young adult novelist. She has written two separate teen/young adult book series, All About Us and Double Trouble. She resuscitated both of them into teen and young adult novels after they were short-lived TV shows.

All About Us series has 21 books in total, including a prequel, a summer collection and a dictionary-style book called All About Style and All About Beauty. All About Middle School is a collection of 44 individual books entitled with each character’s names, which are about the girls' lives at Silver Hills Middle School. The series was originally an teen TV show on NBC in 2001, but it was cancelled after one season. Wells made All About Us popular due its' storylines with Alicia and Ryan's relationship, Nikki almost being an victim of date-rape and her parents' divorce, Sierra's not fond of her mother returning to the dating scene, and Kristy's painkiller addiction after injuring her right shoulder. Alicia's relationship with Ryan won the All About Us Wiki Award for Best Couple. It's most intense episode, Earthquake won the award for Best Episode and Twas the Nightmare Before Christmas won Best Christmas Special. AAU's episode, Earthquake revealed that an earthquake hit Silver Hills and the main and secondary characters struggled to reunite in the aftermath. It saw Kristy Castelli trying to save Nikki Merrick's life after she was injured, Sierra Jennings' kissing Matt Wright, while she is in an relationship with her boyfriend, Alicia Alcott helping her ex-boyfriend, Ryan Frankel deliver his half-sister in his trashed home in the dark. The storyline that won the AAU Wiki Awards for Best OMG Moment was the conflict between Nikki Merrick and Sierra Jennings in Crossing the Line. Plus, Alicia and Ryan's first kiss in the first episode of the series won the award for Best Kiss.

Double Trouble series has 44 books, including diaries, style and beauty books, and a slambook about the hottest boys. This series was originally an teen TV show also on NBC from 1984 to 1985, and like All About Us, it was also short-lived. Each episode of the series won the DT Wiki Awards. Jenny's relationship with Paul won the Award for Best Couple and Jenny's pregnancy storyline won the award for Best Very Special Episode. Senior Switch Day, where the twins switch places for Senior Ditch Day won the Best Episode award for it's comedic episode. Nikki Merrick was awarded Best Character

All About Us tells the story about four teenage girls living in a suburban town in California called Silver Hills. Although they have been friends since Kindergarten, they have different cliques; Alicia Alcott is an aspiring singer and dancer with an interracial family an black father, a white mother, and two siblings, brother Trent and sister Brittany. Alicia also deals with her attraction to another singer, Ryan Frankel; Nikki Merrick is a superficial rich girl with an obsession of fashion and boys; Sierra Jennings is an straight-A student with a title "Miss Perfect" but her homelife wasn't so perfect. Her parents divorce when she was in the 8th grade, she helps her mother take care of her younger sister, Leslie, while having a conflict with her older sister, Will (Short for Willow); and Kristy Castelli is the tomboy of the pack. Her family own their pizza restaurant called Castelli's Pizza Shack where her father was the manager and she was the waitress. Kristy's mother is the principal at her school, Silver Hills High School.

Double Trouble tells the story about a pair of teenage twin sisters, Megan and Jenny Healy, who always managed to create some kind of situation for each other, their family or their circle of friends. They were regular girls, living in Leawood, California. After high school, they moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting and journalism. The Healy twins were opposite in that Jenny was the conservative, down to earth type while Megan was the outgoing devil may care more rebellious twin.

Notes

• Like all of her book characters from both book series, Maryam is a California native.
• Maryam has a lot in common with All About Us character, Alicia Alcott.
  • They both had two parents, older brothers and younger sisters.
  • They both felt like high school outcasts, but survived it.
  • They both battled Binge-Eating Disorders. However, Wells' own battle with BED was the main storyline for Alicia in Behind the Music.
  • They are both Virgos.
• The issues that Maryam feels strongly about are teen bullying, Autism, Colon Cancer, and Gun Violence.
• Maryam stated in interview that she could be friends with the AAU Girls and the Healy twins.
• She ships Alicia and Ryan and Matt and Nikki from All About Us and Paul and Jenny from Double Trouble.
• Although she wrote the storyline involving Sierra Jennings' new relationship with Matt Wright in their senior year, Wells revealed that the relationship between Sierra and Matt isn't her favorite.
• Like Alicia, Maryam lost her father and developed a love/hate relationship with her mother.
• After earning her AA in cosmetology, Wells attended FIDM in L.A.
• She has the same birthday as the late Michael Jackson and Canadian actress, Lauren Collins.
  • She also has the same birthday and birth year as actress, Nicole Gale Anderson.
• Maryam's style icons include Victoria Beckham, the Olsen twins, Hilary Duff, and the PLL Girls.
• Her favorite celebrity siblings are the Olsen and Mowry twins; the Simpson sisters, and Duff sisters.
• Maryam has been allergic to cheap metal since she was 13.
• If Maryam wasn't an author, she would like to a be a author.
• She is the cousin of actor/producer Avery Vaughn.
• She has her up apartment unit in Downtown L.A.
• Her book series, Sisterly Love is based on her experience in working at an salon.
• She has three girls. Michaela Christina, Mercedes Elizabeth, and Maxine Danielle.
  • Wells' eldest, Michaela was named after her late grandfather and late uncle.
    • All the girls' names begin with the letter "M", like their mother.
• Wells teamed up with Mark Dickson with writing songs for her Being Maryam album and songs from her novel series All About Us and Girlfriends On Ice.
• She did Dance during her freshman and sophomore year of high school.