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Roth was born in New York City on August 19, 1988 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 landscape
companies. Her brother and sister live in the Chicago area.
Her father is German (born in Cologne). Her mother's family is
Polish. Her maternal grandparents were concentration camp survivors, whose
religious convictions pushed her mother away from religion. Veronica Roth
learned about the Christian religion by attending a Christian Bible study
during her high school years, and has stayed with it.
Roth graduated from Barrington High School. After attending a year of
college at Carleton College, she transferred
to Northwestern University for its
creative writing program. She married photographer Nelson Fitch in
2011. They reside in the Chicago area.
Career
Roth is best known for her trilogy of
novels: Divergent, Insurgent, and Allegiant; the latter 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 movie rights
sold before she graduated from college.
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. Insurgent will begin filming in Atlanta in
May, 2014 and is scheduled to be 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 1and 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; one is available, while three will be
released in 2014. 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. In December 2013, Roth posted
on her site that publication of the last three stories has been delayed until
July 2014. They will be sold separately as e-books and also bound together
under the title Four: A Divergent Story Collection. This book
will also feature Free Four: Tobias Tells the Story chapter
thirteen of Divergent in Tobias's point of view. The last two
short stories of Tobias's stories are titled The Son and The
Traitor.
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