Veronica Roth

Veronica Roth

Roth at the film premiere of Divergent in California on March 18, 2014
Born Veronica Roth
(1988-08-19) August 19, 1988
New York, New York, United States
Occupation Novelist and short story writer
Nationality American
Alma mater Northwestern University (2010)
Genre Young adult, dystopian
Notable works Divergent trilogy
Spouse Nelson Fitch
(2011–present)
Website
www.veronicarothbooks.com

Veronica Roth (born August 19, 1988) is an American novelist and short story writer known for her debut New York Times bestselling Divergent trilogy, consisting of Divergent, Insurgent, and Allegiant; and Four: A Divergent Collection. Divergent was the recipient of the Goodreads Favorite Book of 2011 and the 2012 winner for Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction.[1][2]

Personal life

Veronica Roth was born on August 19, 1988 in New York City, and was raised primarily in Barrington, Illinois.[3] Her mother, Barbara Ross, is a painter who resides in Barrington.[3][4] 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.[5][3] Her brother and sister live in the Chicago area.[3]

She is of German and Polish descent.[6][7] Roth says of her father: “He had a job, and worked far away. Now I have a good relationship with my stepdad.” [8] 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.[5][9]

Roth graduated from Barrington High School.[10] After attending a year of college at Carleton College, she transferred to Northwestern University for its creative writing program.[5] She married photographer Nelson Fitch in 2011.[11] They reside in the Chicago area.[5]

Career

Veronica Roth is best known for her trilogy of novels: Divergent, Insurgent, and Allegiant; Allegiant was released on October 22, 2013.[12]

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.[1][2][13] Roth wrote her first book, Divergent, while on winter break in her senior year at Northwestern University.[5] 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.[5][14][15][16]

Roth sold the film rights to The Divergent Series to Summit Entertainment.[16][17][18] 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.[19][20] The film was released on March 20, 2015.[21] On April 11, 2014, Summit Entertainment announced that the third book, Allegiant, would be split into two films, part 1 and part 2. Former Part 1 is called The Divergent Series: Allegiant, and was released on March 18, 2016, and former Part 2 is named The Divergent Series: Ascendant, and is scheduled to be released on March 24, 2017.[22][23]

She wrote four short stories from Tobias Eaton's point of view. 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.[24] The second story is titled The Initiate.[25] The stories are sold separately as e-books and also bound together under the title Four: A Divergent Story Collection.[26] The last two short stories of Tobias's stories are titled The Son and The Traitor.[27] The story collection was published in several forms in July 2014.[28] 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 in the USA and in 2013 in the UK.[29]

Publisher HarperCollins announced a two-book deal with Roth, for publication of two young adult novels. Publication of the first is anticipated in 2017 and the second in 2018.[30]

Bibliography

References

  1. 1 2 "Results for Favorite Book of 2011". Goodreads.com.
  2. 1 2 "Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction, 2012 award". Goodreads.com. Retrieved October 23, 2013.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Wainwright, Natalie (5 July 2011). "'Divergent': A Bestseller Built in Evanston".
  4. ↑ Lizluby (October 6, 2013). "365BarringtonTV Interviews DIVERGENT Author Veronica Roth". Retrieved October 23, 2013.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Borrelli, Christopher (October 22, 2013). "The next YA superstar?". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved October 23, 2013.
  6. ↑ First Jumper (May 1, 2012). "Missed the Twitter Chat? Not to Worry~Full Transcript of Veronica Roth's Q & A Session [5/1] #InsurgentDay". Divergent Fans (unofficial fan site). Archived from the original on March 15, 2014. Retrieved September 15, 2014.
  7. ↑ Clarke, Donald (April 4, 2014). "Roth’s child: Divergent author talks". The Irish Times. Retrieved April 28, 2015.
  8. ↑ Kidd, James (January 5, 2014). "'I don't want smut on the page': Divergent author Veronica Roth on sex and teen fiction". The Independent (UK). Retrieved September 15, 2014.
  9. ↑ Roth, Veronica (29 September 2010). "Christian Take on Banning SPEAK". blogspot. VeronicaRothBooks. Retrieved March 29, 2014.
  10. ↑ Leopold, Wendy (May 5, 2010). "A Book Contract Already! Weinberg undergraduate gets a three-book deal from HarperCollins". Northwestern.edu. Retrieved August 29, 2013.
  11. ↑ Bock, Cathy and David. "Veronica and Nelson Married". Cathy and David Photographers.
  12. ↑ Deutsch, Lindsay (April 17, 2013). "Veronica Roth 'Divergent' video reveal: Book 3 is ...". USA Today. Retrieved July 10, 2012.
  13. ↑ "Best Goodreads Author in 2012". Goodreads.com. Retrieved October 23, 2013.
  14. ↑ Truitt, Brian (March 29, 2012). "Exclusive trailer and interview: 'Insurgent' by Veronica Roth". USA Today. Retrieved April 12, 2012.
  15. ↑ Dominus, Susan (May 12, 2011). "In This Dystopia, Teens Must Choose Wisely". The New York Times. Retrieved April 12, 2012.
  16. 1 2 Crowder, Courtney (April 20, 2011). "Chicago novelist sells film rights". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved October 12, 2014.
  17. ↑ Elfman, Mali (July 21, 2011). "Comic-Con 2011: Veronica Roth from Divergent Press Conference". Screencrave.com. Retrieved March 10, 2012.
  18. ↑ Kung, Michelle (July 23, 2011). "‘Divergent’ Author Veronica Roth on Her Film Adaptation". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 13 April 2012.
  19. ↑ Lang, Brent. "‘Divergent’ Debuts to $4.9 Million, Lionsgate Greenlights ‘Insurgent’". Retrieved March 22, 2014.
  20. ↑ Gomez, Luis (March 6, 2014). "'Divergent' sequel will film in Atlanta, but what about Chicago?". About Last Night. Chicago Tribune. Retrieved April 26, 2014.
  21. ↑ Linshi, Jack (March 22, 2015). "Insurgent Tops Weekend Box Office But Misses Divergent Mark". Time Magazine. Retrieved March 22, 2015.
  22. ↑ Coggan, Devan (September 10, 2015). "The last two Divergent movies have titles: Allegiant and Ascendant". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved November 2, 2015.
  23. ↑ McNary, Dave (April 11, 2014). "Lionsgate Splitting Third ‘Divergent’ Book ‘Allegiant’ into Two Films". Variety. Retrieved November 2, 2015.
  24. ↑ "The Transfer: A Divergent Story". HarperCollins. Retrieved October 23, 2013.
  25. ↑ "The Initiate: A Divergent Story unabridged". HarperCollins. Retrieved October 23, 2013.
  26. ↑ Roth, Veronica (December 7, 2013). "News About the "Four" Stories". Retrieved January 8, 2014.
  27. ↑ "Four". HarperCollins. Retrieved October 23, 2013.
  28. ↑ "Four: A Divergent Story Collection". Fantastic Fiction. Retrieved October 12, 2014.
  29. ↑ "Free Four". Fantastic Fiction. Retrieved November 2, 2015.
  30. ↑ "HarperCollins Publishers Announces Two-Book Deal with Veronica Roth". HarperCollins. March 2, 2015. Retrieved December 7, 2015.
  31. ↑ Roth, Veronica (February 19, 2013). "Excerpt from "Hearken," from the Shards and Ashes anthology!". Veronica Roth. Retrieved November 6, 2013.

External links

Wikiquote has quotations related to: Veronica Roth
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Friday, May 06, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.