1. Lauren Oliver was born on Laura Suzanne Schechter; November 8,1982 and 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.
Lauren Oliver served as creator, writer and showrunner on the project.
Lauren Oliver's novels have been translated into more than thirty languages internationally.
Lauren Oliver has said that she wrote all of the book on her BlackBerry while she went to meetings on the subway.
Panic was adapted into a television series released by Amazon Prime Video; Lauren Oliver served as showrunner for the adaptation.
Lauren Oliver was born in Queens and raised in Westchester, New York, a small town very similar to the one depicted in Before I Fall.
Lauren Oliver is the daughter of the true crime writer Harold Schechter.
Lauren Oliver's parents are both literature professors, and from a very young age, she was encouraged to make up stories, draw, paint, dance around in costumes, and spend much of her time essentially living imaginatively.
Lauren Oliver pursued literature and philosophy at the University of Chicago and then moved back to New York to attend NYU's MFA program in creative writing.
Lauren Oliver simultaneously began working at Penguin Books, in a young adult division called Razorbill, where, she started work on Before I Fall.
Lauren Oliver left in 2009 to pursue writing full-time and now happily works at home.