Lauren Oliver

Lauren Oliver (born Laura Suzanne Schechter; November 8, 1982) is an American author of numerous young adult novels including Panic, the Delirium trilogy; Delirium, Pandemonium and Requiem, and Before I Fall, which became a major motion picture in 2017. Her novels have been translated into more than thirty languages internationally. Oliver is a 2012 E.B. White Read-Aloud Award nominee for her middle-grade novel Liesl & Po, as well as author of the middle-grade fantasy novel The Spindlers. Oliver graduated from the University of Chicago, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Additionally, she holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from New York University and is the co-founder of a Paper Lantern Lit with Lexa Hillyer. 2Early life Growing up, Oliver was both an avid reader and writer, stating, “I come from a family of writers, and so have always (mistakenly) believed that spending hours in front of the computer every day, mulling over the difference between ‘chortling’ and ‘chuckling’ is normal. As a child, after finishing a book, I would continue to write a sequel for its characters, because I did not want to have to give them up.” As she continued in her writing, Oliver eventually made the switch to writing her own stories and characters, to some success. Writing was not Oliver's only passion, though. She also enjoyed taking ballet, drawing, painting, making collages, singing, acting, experimenting with cooking, and as she puts it, “(trying) to spend my time being as creative and useless as possible.” After finishing high school and moving on to the University of Chicago, Oliver reveals, “I continued to be as impractical as possible by majoring in philosophy and literature...inadvertently aided and abetted in my mission by my older sister, Lizzie, who pursued a Ph.D. in philosophy and cognitive science. This eventually led our parents to resign themselves to the fact that their children would never be lawyers, doctors, or even gainfully employe