Cabot was born in Bloomington, Indiana to college professor A. Victor and Barbara Cabot. She married financial writer Benjamin D. Egnatz on April 1, 1993. She has two cats, Henrietta and Gem, about whom she often blogs.

In 1991, Cabot received a B.A. from Indiana University. Before she published her first book, Meg worked as an assistant dorm manager at New York University. After living in Indiana, California, New York, and France, she now currently resides in Key West, Florida.

In May 2006, the Harvard Crimson released reports that 19-year-old author Kaavya Viswanathan borrowed passages from Cabot's Princess Diaries series, and other books, to place in her novel How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life. Viswanathan's novels were subsequently pulled from the shelves.

                       

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