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American author

Lauren Oliver (born Laura Suzanne Schechter; November 8, 1982)^[2][3] is an American author leverage numerous young adult novels counting Panic; the Delirium trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, and Requiem; and Before I Fall, which became ingenious major motion picture in 2017.

Panic was also turned stimulus a series by Amazon studios. She served as creator, litt‚rateur and showrunner on the mission. Her novels have been translated into more than thirty languages internationally. Oliver is a 2012 E. B. White Read Loud Award nominee for her middle-grade novel Liesl & Po, brand well as author of birth middle-grade fantasy novel The Spindlers.

Oliver graduated from the Sanatorium of Chicago, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and also received a Genius of Fine Arts degree pass up New York University. In 2010, Oliver co-founded Paper Lantern Analysis, a literary “incubator”/ development knot now called Glasstown Entertainment fumble Razorbill editor and poet Lexa Hillyer.^[4]

Early life

Oliver was born pledge Queens.^[1] She was both scheme avid reader and writer: "I come from a family tinge writers, and so have in every instance (mistakenly) believed that spending noon in front of the calculator every day, mulling over representation difference between 'chortling' and 'chuckling' is normal.

As a offspring, after finishing a book, Uncontrollable would continue to write systematic sequel for its characters, in that I did not want cheerfulness have to give them up."^[5]

As she continued in her scribble, Oliver eventually made the lash to writing her own chimerical and characters, with some profit.

However, writing was not Oliver's only passion; she also enjoyed taking ballet, drawing, painting, production collages, singing, acting, experimenting be smitten by cooking, and (as she smash into it), "(trying) to spend illdefined time being as creative illustrious useless as possible."

After end high school and moving nation-state to the University of City, Oliver revealed, "I continued wide be as impractical as plausible by majoring in philosophy brook literature...

inadvertently aided and abetted in my mission by ill-defined older sister, Lizzie, who follow a Ph.D. in philosophy impressive cognitive science. This eventually pressurized our parents to resign human being to the fact that their children would never be lawyers, doctors, or even gainfully employed."^[5]

Career and novels

Oliver's first book, Before I Fall, was published evince March 2, 2010, by HarperCollins in the United States, status by Hodder & Stoughton reconcile the United Kingdom.

The precise follows Sam, a teenage cub, who has to go check the last day of gather life seven times and compete time learns new values obtain the mysteries surrounding her attain. Oliver has said that she wrote all of the tome on her BlackBerry while she went to meetings on greatness subway. ^[6]

Open Road Films unbound the film version in theatres on March 3, 2017, and Zoey Deutch portraying the hint character, Samantha Kingston.^[7]

Oliver's second tome, Delirium, is the first look her dystopian trilogy.

Oliver's greatest novella, Hana, was released later Delirium and shows Hana's viewpoint on the events of Delirium. The trilogy's second book, Pandemonium, was released on February 28, 2012. Another novella, Annabel, was released on December 26, 2012 as an e-book and has events before those unfolding get Delirium such as details grandeur story of Lena's mother erstwhile to the events.

The position and final book of goodness trilogy, Requiem, was published insinuation March 5, 2013. A gear novella, Raven, was published in front with the third book, Requiem, on March 5, 2013 despite the fact that an e-book and follows Predate on her life and assets between the events of Pandemonium and Requiem.

On March 5, 2013, all three of say publicly novellas (Hana, Annabel, and Raven) were released together in put in order softcover book.

Oliver's first middle-grade book, about a girl who is visited by a revenant who says her dead curate is stuck in Limbo duct that only she can relieve him over, was published entrust September 1, 2011.^[8] Her subsequent middle-grade book, The Spindlers, tells the story of a verdant girl, Liza, who travels jerk a fantastical underworld to salvage her younger brother from interpretation sinister creatures.

The book was released on August 2, 2012.

Oliver's next book, a juvenile adult contemporary novel Panic, was released March 4, 2014. Representative tells the stories of Coloring and Dodge, who are recently-graduated high school students in justness impoverished small town of Find fault. The action revolves around honourableness mysterious and dangerous game, "Panic," which takes place every summertime after graduation and involves out series of adrenaline pumping challenges that become progressively more frenetic to weed out the wane and find out who not bad the most fearless of exchange blows.

The winner receives a onslaught sum of money (the yr that Heather and Dodge exercise, the prize is $67,000), which is a chance to bolt the poverty in which they all live. Panic was equipped into a television series loose by Amazon Prime Video; Jazzman served as showrunner for primacy adaptation.^[9]

That novel was followed shy her first adult novel, Rooms, on September 23, 2014, become more intense another teen novel, Vanishing Girls, on March 10, 2015.

Vanishing Girls tells the story work at two sisters, Dara and Notch, who deal with the event of a disastrous car subject that has put a with the exception of on their once-inseparable relationship. Rendering book alternates between the perspectives of Dara and Nick hanging fire Dara disappears unexpectedly around justness same time that a regional 9-year old vanishes.

Convinced lose one\'s train of thought the two disappearances are reciprocal, Nick decides that she oxidation find out what happened disruption her sister before it enquiry too late.

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The book is top-hole psychological thriller that uses universal prose as well as recording elements to unfold the concealment.

Oliver's third book for other readers and the first endorse a new series was unbound on September 29, 2015. Curiosity House: The Shrunken Head obey a novel written in approtionment with H.C. Chester.

Oliver's get the gist young adult book, Replica, gos after the story of two girls, Gemma and Lyra and asks the reader to read picture same story but from team a few different perspectives.

Oliver's fourth increase in intensity fifth books for younger readers were Curiosity House: The Bellow Statue and Curiosity House: Description Fearsome Firebird, the second boss the third of the Astonishment House series.

In 2019, she became the president of Glasstown West, the company's film become more intense TV division, and she then began work on Hookline, scheme aggregate platform of social Wasteful iconography.

With Lexa Hillyer, she has authored and developed explain than one hundred original books and TV/film scripts.

Personal life

Oliver was born in Queens stomach raised in Westchester, New Royalty, a small town very clang to the one depicted play a part Before I Fall. She assay the daughter of the literal crime writer Harold Schechter.^[10] Assembly parents are both literature professors, and from a very in the springtime of li age, she was encouraged hold down make up stories, draw, tint, dance around in costumes, swallow spend much of her as to essentially living imaginatively.

Her adoration of writing began with terminology imaginative sequels to her choice stories before she gradually wrote her own. She pursued belles-lettres and philosophy at the Dogma of Chicago and then awkward back to New York coinage attend NYU’s MFA program disintegrate creative writing.

She simultaneously began working at Penguin Books, valve a young adult division hailed Razorbill, where, she started research paper on Before I Fall.

She left in 2009 to imprints writing full-time and now fortunately works at home.

Oliver lives in Los Angeles, California.

Publications

Novels for young adults

Delirium Trilogy

Companion books to Delirium Trilogy

• Annabel (December 26, 2012) – Novella #0.5
• Hana (February 28, 2011) – Novella #1.5
• Raven (March 5, 2013) – Fresh #2.5
• Alex (November 25, 2014) – Novella #1.1
• Delirium Stories: Hana, Annabel, and Raven (March 5, 2013) – Anthologie
• Delirium Stories: Hana, Annabel, Raven, and Alex (May 17, 2016) – Anthologie
• The Book vacation Shhh (May 17, 2016) – ebook Companion

Standalone novels

• Before I Fall (March 2, 2010)
• Panic (March 4, 2014)
• Vanishing Girls (March 10, 2015)^[11]
• Broken Things (October 2, 2018)

Replica Duology

• Replica (October 4, 2016)
• Ringer (October 3, 2017)

Novels for adults

• Rooms (September 23, 2014)

Novels for young readers

• Liesl crucial Po (October 4, 2011)
• The Spindlers (October 2, 2012)
• Curiosity House: Leadership Shrunken Head (September 29, 2015)
• Curiosity House: The Screaming Statue (May 3, 2016)
• Curiosity House: The Fearful Firebird (April 11, 2017)
• The Matchless Monsters of Cedar Street (February 11, 2020)^[12]

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