Lauren Oliver
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Oliver at the 2016 Texas Book Festival
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| Born | Laura Suzanne Schechter November 8, 1982 Westchester County, New York |
| Occupation | Author |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | American |
| Citizenship | American |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago |
| Period | 2010–present |
| Genre |
Young adult Science fiction Romance Dystopian Middle Grade Adult |
| Notable works |
Delirium trilogy Before I Fall |
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Lauren Oliver (born Laura Suzanne Schechter; November 8, 1982) is an American author of the young adult novels Before I Fall, Panic and the Delirium trilogy; Delirium, Pandemonium and Requiem, which have been translated into more than thirty languages. She is a 2012 E.B. White Read-Aloud Award nominee for her middle-grade novel Liesl & Po, as well as author of the fantasy middle-grade novel The Spindlers.
Lauren graduated from the University of Chicago, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She also has a Master of Fine Arts degree from New York University. With Lexa Hillyer, she is co-founder of the boutique literary development company Paper Lantern Lit.
Growing up, Lauren was both an avid reader and writer, saying, “I come from a family of writers, and so have always (mistakenly) believed that spending hours in front of the computer every day, mulling over the difference between ‘chortling’ and ‘chuckling’ is normal. As a child, after finishing a book, I would continue to write a sequel for its characters, because I did not want to have to give them up.”
As she continued in her writing, Lauren eventually made the switch to writing her own stories and characters, to some success. Yet, in addition to writing, Lauren also enjoyed taking ballet, drawing, painting, making collages, singing, acting, experimenting with cooking, and as she puts it, “(trying) to spend my time being as creative and useless as possible.” After finishing high school and moving on to the University of Chicago, Lauren reveals, “I continued to be as impractical as possible by majoring in philosophy and literature...inadvertently aided and abetted in my mission by my older sister, Lizzie, who pursued a Ph.D. in philosophy and cognitive science. This eventually led our parents to resign themselves to the fact that their children would never be lawyers, doctors, or even gainfully employed. Nevertheless, things appear to have worked out for the well-known author.
Oliver's first book, Before I Fall, was published on March 2, 2010, by HarperCollins in the United States, and by Hodder & Stoughton in the United Kingdom. The book is about a teenage girl, Sam, who has to go through the last day of her life seven times, each time learning new values and the mysteries surrounding her death. Oliver has said that she wrote all of the book on her BlackBerry while going to meetings on the subway. She would E-mail herself the chapters to later work on them some more.Open Road Films released the film version in theatres on March 3, 2017, with Zoey Deutch portraying main character Samantha Kingston.
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