“What is it with you today?” says Christina on the way to breakfast. Her eyes are stillswollen from sleep and her tangled hair forms a fuzzy halo around her face.“Oh, you know,” I say. “Sun shining. Birds chirping.”She raises an eyebrow at me, as if reminding me that we are in an undergroundtunnel.”

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.