Unlike most authors, Veronica Roth had a relatively quick journey to literary stardom, with her debut novel Divergent landing her on the New York Times best sellers list at the tender age of 22. Roth attended Minnesota's Carleton College for one year before transferring to Northwestern and graduating from the university's prestigious writing program.
Background
Veronica Roth was born on August 19, 1988 in New York City, and was raised primarily in Barrington, Illinois.
Her mother, Barbara Ross, is a painter who resides in Barrington. She is the youngest of three children. Her parents divorced when she was five years old, and her mother has since remarried to Frank Ross, a financial consultant for landscaping companies. Her brother and sister live in the Chicago area.
She is of German and Polish descent. Roth says of her father: "He had a job, and worked far away. Now I have a good relationship with my stepdad". Her maternal grandparents were concentration camp survivors, whose religious convictions pushed her mother away from religion. Veronica Roth learned about Christianity by attending a Christian Bible study during her high school years, and has stayed with it.
Education
She attended Carleton College in Minnesota for one year and then transferred to Northwestern University, in Chicago. She graduated from Northwestern in 2010 with a degree in creative writing.
Career
Veronica Roth is best known for her trilogy of novels: Divergent, Insurgent, and Allegiant; Allegiant was released on October 22, 2013.
She is the recipient of the Goodreads 2011 Choice Award and the Best of 2012 in the category Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction and also Best Goodreads Author in 2012. Roth wrote her first book, Divergent, while on winter break in her senior year at Northwestern University. Her career took off rapidly with the success of her first novel, with the publishing rights sold before she graduated from college in 2010 and the film rights sold mid-March 2011, before the novel was printed in April 2011.
Roth sold the film rights to the Divergent series to Summit Entertainment. Filming of Divergent, the adaptation of the first book in the series, was started in April 2013, and the film was released in March 2014. On March 21, 2014, Lionsgate officially greenlit the film adaptation of Insurgent. The film was released on March 20, 2015. On April 11, 2014, Summit Entertainment announced that the third book Allegiant would split into two films titled Allegiant - Part 1 and Allegiant - Part 2, with Part 1 scheduled to be released on March 18, 2016 and Part 2 on March 24, 2017.
Four short stories from Tobias Eaton's point of view are outlined. The Transfer is the first of four short stories, which tells some of Tobias's life prior to Divergent. It was released on September 3, 2013. The second story is titled The Initiate. The stories are sold separately as e-books and also bound together under the title Four: A Divergent Story Collection. The last two short stories of Tobias's stories are titled The Son and The Traitor. The story collection was published in several forms in July 2014. The novella Free Four: Tobias Tells the Story chapter thirteen of Divergent in Tobias's point of view, and was released for Kindle in 2012.
Religion
Veronica is a devout Christian.
Views
Quotations:
''I'm hearing a lot more calls for different types of heroes, not just the gay best friend but the gay hero, not just the black best friend but the black hero. People are clamoring for it a little more, and I think that's a positive sign. It means that things will start to spread.''
Personality
Books:
2011 - Divergent - This is the first book in a young adult dystopian trilogy that takes place in a future Chicago. The story is told from the perspective of Tris, a sixteen year old. This future society is split into five factions based on the virtue they cultivate -- Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). Every sixteen year old must choose which faction they will devote their lives to and then undergo a rigorous initiation into the group. Beatrice, or Tris, must choose between her family and who she truly is.
2012 - Insurgent - The second book in the Divergent Trilogy deals with the fallout of Tris' choice and a looming war between factions.
2012 - "Free Four" - This short story retells the knife throwing scene from Divergent from Tobias' perspective. It is a free e-story that is 13 pages long.
2013 - Shards & Ashes - This anthology of short stories included a selection from Veronica Roth.
2013 - More Four! - This free e-book will include four new Divergent short stories told from the perspective of Tobias Eaton. The first story in the collection, "The Transfer: A Divergent Story," will be released September 24.
2013 - Allegiant - The last book in the Divergent Trilogy will be released in October 2013 and complete the saga.
Interesting facts:
Veronica’s fears: fear of height, own mistakes, flights, high speed.
Despite of abundance of fears, Veronica would choose the fraction of Fearless if such existed in reality, because considers that courage does people capable to help another people, that is very important.
She preferes black color in clothes.
She admitted that in Tris’s role (the main character) she sees the actress Mia Wasikowska.
The favorite poetess - Edna St. Vincent Millay.
She has been writing books for 12 years.
Quotes from others about the person
Leonora Hutagaol:
' Hi, i like your style!'.
Soma Chattopadhyay :
'My daughter is one of the greatest fan of yours'.
Melanie Alvarez :
'Even though the faction Dauntless sounds a bit rough, I'd totally go to that faction anyways!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I this freaken book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it's like awesome! Divergent!!!! Veronica Ross, nice job'.