Lauren Oliver
Encyclopedia
Lauren Oliver is an American author
known for her young adult books.
, was published on March 2, 2010, by HarperCollins
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The book is about a teenage girl, Samantha, who has to go through the last day of her life seven times, each time learning new values and the mysteries surrounding her death. Oliver claims to have written all of it on her BlackBerry
while going to meetings on the subway. She'd e-mail herself the chapters to later work on them some more.This book is also being optioned to be made into a movie by Fox 2000.
, is the first in her Dystopia
n trilogy. It tells the story of a society where love has been considered a disease and everyone have to go through a special treatment on their eighteenth birthday to be cured of the illness. The book's protagonist
, Lena, meets a boy who shows her not everything is as it seems.
The trilogy's second book, Pandemonium, is scheduled to be released on February 2012, while the third book, Requiem, will be published on February 2013. This book is optioned to become a movie, by Fox 2000.
that tells her her dead father is stuck on Limbo
and that only she can help him cross over, will be published September 1, 2011.
Author
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known for her young adult books.
Works
Lauren Oliver has published two young adult novels Before I Fall (2010) and Delirium (2011). In 2011, it was revealed that Oliver's middle grade book, Liesl and Po, was scheduled for release on September 1, 2011. Fox 2000 has optioned the rights to Lauren Oliver's New York Times bestselling young adult debut novel Before I Fall.Before I Fall
Oliver's first book, Before I FallBefore I Fall
Before I Fall is a young adult novel written by Lauren Oliver.-Plot summary:Samantha Kingston has it all: the world's most crush-worthy boyfriend, three amazing best friends, and first pick of everything at Thomas Jefferson High—from the best table in the cafeteria to the choicest parking spot...
, was published on March 2, 2010, by HarperCollins
HarperCollins
HarperCollins is a publishing company owned by News Corporation. It is the combination of the publishers William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd, a British company, and Harper & Row, an American company, itself the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers and Row, Peterson & Company. The worldwide...
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The book is about a teenage girl, Samantha, who has to go through the last day of her life seven times, each time learning new values and the mysteries surrounding her death. Oliver claims to have written all of it on her BlackBerry
BlackBerry
BlackBerry is a line of mobile email and smartphone devices developed and designed by Canadian company Research In Motion since 1999.BlackBerry devices are smartphones, designed to function as personal digital assistants, portable media players, internet browsers, gaming devices, and much more...
while going to meetings on the subway. She'd e-mail herself the chapters to later work on them some more.This book is also being optioned to be made into a movie by Fox 2000.
Delirium trilogy
Her second book, DeliriumDelirium (Lauren Oliver novel)
Delirium is a young adult novel written by Lauren Oliver.-Plot summary:In Delirium, a cure for amor deliria nervosa had been discovered and was mandatory for citizens 18-year-old or over. Before the procedure, patients had to conduct a test to obtain a score, which would determine their future...
, is the first in her Dystopia
Dystopia
A dystopia is the idea of a society in a repressive and controlled state, often under the guise of being utopian, as characterized in books like Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four...
n trilogy. It tells the story of a society where love has been considered a disease and everyone have to go through a special treatment on their eighteenth birthday to be cured of the illness. The book's protagonist
Protagonist
A protagonist is the main character of a literary, theatrical, cinematic, or musical narrative, around whom the events of the narrative's plot revolve and with whom the audience is intended to most identify...
, Lena, meets a boy who shows her not everything is as it seems.
The trilogy's second book, Pandemonium, is scheduled to be released on February 2012, while the third book, Requiem, will be published on February 2013. This book is optioned to become a movie, by Fox 2000.
Liesl and Po
Oliver's first MG book, about a girl who is visited by a ghostGhost
In traditional belief and fiction, a ghost is the soul or spirit of a deceased person or animal that can appear, in visible form or other manifestation, to the living. Descriptions of the apparition of ghosts vary widely from an invisible presence to translucent or barely visible wispy shapes, to...
that tells her her dead father is stuck on Limbo
Limbo
In the theology of the Catholic Church, Limbo is a speculative idea about the afterlife condition of those who die in original sin without being assigned to the Hell of the damned. Limbo is not an official doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church or any other...
and that only she can help him cross over, will be published September 1, 2011.