“I think it's fascinating to look at a world that an author has created that has sort of stemmed from the world now, and usually dystopian books point out something about our current world and exaggerates a tendency or a belief.”

American novelist and short story writer

Veronica Anne Roth is an American novelist and short story writer. She is best known for the bestselling Divergent trilogy, which has sold more than 35 million copies worldwide. Her work is closely associated with young adult fiction and with the success of the Divergent books in particular. Those novels made her a widely read contemporary author and established her reputation as a writer for a large global audience.