Veronica Roth

Biography

Veronica Roth was born in 1988 in New York and raised in the Chicago suburbs. She began writing Divergent during winter break of her senior year at Northwestern University, completing it during her final semester. She was twenty-two when the book sold to HarperCollins in 2010. Published in 2011, it debuted at number six on the New York Times bestseller list. Roth has discussed her Christian faith as a significant influence on the novel's exploration of self-sacrifice and identity — the Abnegation faction's values draw consciously on the idea of dying to self as a spiritual practice.

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