Lauren Oliver is an American author best known for writing young adult fiction. She made her debut in 2010 with the novel Before I Fall and followed it up with the popular Delirium trilogy, which concluded in 2013. Oliver has since published several more novels, including Panic and Vanishing Girls. She is also the New York Times bestselling author of the Wake trilogy.
Born and raised in Connecticut, Oliver graduated from the University of Chicago before embarking on a career in publishing. Her first job was as an editorial assistant at HarperCollins, where she worked on children's books. She later became a freelance editor and writer before selling her first novel, Before I Fall, to HarperTeen in 2009.
The Delirium trilogy was Oliver's breakout success, with the first book, Delirium, becoming a New York Times bestseller. The series tells the story of a future world where love is considered a disease that must be cured. The main character, Lena Haloway, falls in love with a boy named Alex just as she is scheduled to undergo the government-mandated cure for love.
Oliver's other novels include Liesl & Po (2011), a fantasy story about two ghosts who become friends; Panic (2014), about teens who compete in a dangerous game; and Vanishing Girls (2015), about identical twins whose relationship is tested after one of them goes missing. In 2016, Oliver launchedReplica, an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton that publishes twisted retellings of classic stories like Frankenstein and Dracula from multiple perspectives.