Who is Lauren Oliver? (Ryley W.)

Lauren Oliver is the author of Delirium. She grew up in a house full of creativity, imagination, and literature. When she was growing up she would write sequels to books she really enjoyed reading. She published her first book, Before I Fall, on March 2, 2010. She has 10 books published, and they can be read by a variety of readers. Lauren Oliver writes fiction books that take place in a societies that are different than ours. She writes about things that happen in the future, present, and those that can never happen.

I think that the author wrote Delirium, along with Pandemonium and Requiem, to show what our world would be like without love. Love is considered a disease in future Portland, and here we all love and do it passionately. Lauren Oliver made these books very unique and different from other books. Before reading this book, I had never heard of a book with the setting of a place without love. I think this draws the reader's attention to read about what it's like in a society without something that comes naturally to us. I was curious about what it would be like to not have love in the world when I read the blurb of this book, and I think that's what Lauren Oliver's purpose was for writing this book. She wanted to stand out and write about what most don't think about.