About an Author

Veronica Roth is the autor of Divergent, the book I am currently reading. To find out more information on how she gets the ideas of her book/ to find out her background history, I researched her life. Veronica was born in New York but mainly raised in a suburb of Illinois. She was the youngest of the three children in her family. She has a brother and a sister that both live near her today in Chicago. Her parents got divorced when she was about five years old and she ended up mainly living with her mother. After graduating high school, she attended Northwestern University in Chicago where she majored in creative writing. Veronica wrote Divergent in her senior year at Northwestern while on winter break. Right when it was released, it became a major success. A year later, Veronica wrote and released Insurgent, which is the sequel to Divergent and a year later, Alligence was also released. Divergent is now being made into a movie that will be in theatres later this year. Veronica is still living in Chicago today and writing more books.