inadvertently aided and abetted in my mission by my older sister, Lizzie, who pursued a Ph.D. However, writing was not Oliver's only passion she also enjoyed taking ballet, drawing, painting, making collages, singing, acting, experimenting with cooking, and (as she put it), "(trying) to spend my time being as creative and useless as possible."Īfter finishing high school and moving on to the University of Chicago, Oliver revealed, "I continued to be as impractical as possible by majoring in philosophy and literature. 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." Īs she continued in her writing, Oliver eventually made the switch to writing her own stories and characters, with some success.
She was both an avid reader and writer: "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. In 2010, Oliver co-founded Paper Lantern Lit, a literary “incubator”/ development company now called Glasstown Entertainment with Razorbill editor and poet Lexa Hillyer.
Oliver graduated from the University of Chicago, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and also received a Master of Fine Arts degree from New York University. White Read-Aloud Award nominee for her middle-grade novel Liesl & Po, as well as author of the middle-grade fantasy novel The Spindlers. Her novels have been translated into more than thirty languages internationally. She served as creator, writer and showrunner on the project. Panic was also turned into a series by Amazon studios. 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.
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