Roth, who grew up in Barrington, Illinois, began writing at an early age and was an avid reviewer. She was a fan of the works of writer Lois Lowry, particularly of Lowry ’ s The Giver ( 1993 ), often cited as the original young-adult dystopian novel. When Roth reached high school, she became a practice Christian. Her path to religion was a theme that she much referenced in her novels. Prior to graduating ( 2010 ) from Northwestern University, where she studied creative compose, Roth penned Divergent, the first installment in the trilogy, over winter respite during her senior year .
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Roth took her manuscript to a writers conference in March 2010 and secured an agent. The book was sold the following month to HarperCollins. It debuted in 2011 at number six on the New York Times best-seller list. Insurgent, released in 2012, captured the number one spot on that list. Roth had clearly hit her stride at the right moment—the recess market for dystopian novels was blossoming, and her offerings came on the heels of the popular Twilight and Hunger Games young-adult serial. Roth ’ s fan base grew cursorily, and when Allegiant came out in 2013, it became the most-preordered book ever issued by HarperCollins. The trilogy was a huge commercial success, with more than 30 million copies sold by 2015.
The Divergent series features 16-year-old heroine Beatrice ( “ Tris ” ) Prior, who does not fit easily into a unmarried cabal designated for citizens when they reach the long time of 16. The factions are not separated by class or race but by values or virtues : Dauntless ( boldness ), Abnegation ( altruism ), Amity ( peace ), Candor ( honesty ), and Erudite ( intellectuality ). Tris, who is living secretly as a “ divergent ” ( person who fits into more than one group ), decides to leave the cabal in which she was reared ( Abnegation ) for Dauntless. The series follows Tris ’ s exploration of her identity and her relationship with the character Tobias ( “ Four ” ) Eaton, the leader of her newly faction. In 2014 Roth published Four : A Divergent Collection, a companion volume that tells the report of the trilogy, ampere well as events preceding the independent narrative, from the position of Four. A film adaptation of the beginning book, besides titled Divergent, was released in 2014. A box-office success, it led to the sequels Insurgent ( 2015 ) and The Divergent Series : Allegiant ( 2016 ). In 2017 Roth published her first book outside the Divergent series, Carve the Mark. The fresh, the first base in a bipartite young-adult sci-fi series, tells the saga of Akos and Cyra, characters who come from different fictional planets with opposing cultures. The sequel, The Fates Divide, was released in 2018. The following year Roth published The end and other Beginnings : Stories from the Future, a book of short stories. Chosen Ones ( 2020 ), her first novel for adults, follows a group of people who defeated an evil overlord years earlier.
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