![]() ![]() ![]() With the love for dystopian YA novels at a fever pitch during those years, it did not take Roth long to find an agent who sold her manuscript to HarperCollins.īy this point in time, properties like Twilight and The Hunger Games had already exploded. She was on winter break in her senior year when she wrote ‘Divergent’, her debut novel. She initially spent a year at Carleton College.īut her desire to write and create drove her to drop out in favor of attending Northwestern University. She chose to pursue Linguistic Studies during her time at Northwestern University, where she joined the Creative Writing Program because she loved science fiction and fantasy. ![]() Her education includes stints at Grove Avenue Elementary School, Prairie Middle School, and Barrington High School. She discovered the works of Lois Lowry and they gave birth to her passion for the YA dystopian genre. Her reading preferences were molded at a young age. ![]() Roth, for her part, became a practicing Christian in high school after discovering and attending a Christian Bible Study. Her attitude was the result of the strong religious convictions that ruled the lives of Roth’s maternal grandparents who were concentration camp survivors. When Roth was growing up, her mother was opposed to religion. Because her father worked far away, she eventually developed a strong relationship with Frank Ross, her stepdad and the man Barbara Ross, her mother married. ![]()
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