Veronica Roth
The youngest of three children, Veronica Roth was born in New York but was raised primarily in Barrington, Illinois after her parents divorced when she was five. Upon graduating from Barrington High School, she enrolled in Carleton College in Minnesota. After one year at Carleton, she transferred to Northwestern University in Illinois and graduated with a degree in creative writing. Divergent was her debut novel, written during winter break of her senior year at Northwestern and published in...