It wasn’t until a freshman psychology class at Carleton College that Roth got an initial inkling of writerly inspiration. During her upbringing in the outer Chicago suburb of Barrington, Illinois, she didn’t even explicitly articulate a desire to become an author, though artistic pursuits run in the family her mother, Barbara Ross, is a painter. Roth never set out to create a best-selling YA series. But does every author from that era want to revisit the series that made them famous? For Veronica Roth, the brain (and fingertips) behind the massive Divergent franchise and author of Poster Girl, published on October 18, looking back is far more complicated. A sequel series to the popular 2000s Maze Runner books also kicks off this fall - and the list goes on. Hunger Games creator Suzanne Collins released a prequel to her bestselling series at the start of the pandemic, while Stephanie Meyer published a companion novel to her smash-hit Twilight around the same time. When it comes to the current wave of American aughts nostalgia, the authors of dystopian and paranormal young adult fiction are seizing the moment.
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