Lauren Oliver

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Author/Screenwriter/Person

Lauren Oliver is an author, screenwriter, and media entrepreneur. Her previous works include multiple New York Times bestselling novels for teens, including Before I Fall (which spent seventeen weeks on the list and was adapted into a feature film released by Open Road), the Delirium trilogy (a two-million-copy-selling dystopian series translated into thirty-five languages), and Panic, which she later adapted into the streaming TV show on Amazon Prime of the same name, for which she wrote every episode and served as Executive Producer. Along the way, Lauren founded the IP company StoryGiants and helped to package and edit nearly one hundred other novels. Raised in Westchester, New York, Lauren attended the University of Chicago and got her MFA from NYU. She now divides her time between Maryland and Los Angeles.

Lauren Oliver - THE GIRL IN THE LAKE
June 16, 2026

Lauren Oliver - THE GIRL IN THE LAKE

In this interview, I chat with Lauren Oliver about The Girl in the Lake , UVA's Division of Perceptual Studies, her research, incorporating reincarnation into the story, creating a strong sense of place, what the rest of the ...

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