Lauren Oliver

Lauren Oliver was born Laura Suzanne Schechter in Queens, an outer borough of New York City, and raised primarily in Westchester County, New York—in a town she has described as being “very similar” to the town of Ridgeview depicted in Before I Fall. The child of two literature professors, Oliver developed a love of reading at a young age, and after studying literature at the University of Chicago she attended the prestigious Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing at New York University. Oliver worked in young adult publishing for years before leaving in 2009 to pursue writing full-time, and Before I Fall was published in 2010. The novel launched Oliver into YA stardom, and she followed her successful debut with over ten more novels, including the popular Delirium trilogy, a science fiction saga set in an alternate-universe United States in which love has been classified as a disease. Oliver now resides primarily in Brooklyn, NY, where she founded and continues to operate Glasstown Entertainment, a media and content company that develops innovative storytelling across several media platforms including film, television, and novels.