However, the last thing that was expected of her happened after having met Alex, a person over eighteen (18) who has not taken the cure known as an invalid, Lena starts to fall in love. The first book in the series, Delirium introduces us to Lena who is living the standard life expected of a teenager in this dystopia waiting excitedly for the day of her cure so that she can live her life free of the disease of love. The rebellion gives way to a revolution with Lena at the centre of the fight. Alex takes her to the wild, where things are not as she thought they would be, and encountering the resistance, they decide that they must prevent everyone in the USA from having to take the cure in order for them to live a life of love. Set in a dystopian society where love has been declared a dangerous disease which must be treated by the obligatory “cure”, Lena will find herself swept away from the comfort of a predictable, loveless life as she meets Alex, a member of the Resistance who persuades her that life without love will not make her happy, all this as the day of her treatment comes ever closer. Having written her first book on death (Before I Fall), Oliver decided to write one on love then one day at the gym she saw some news about a pandemic, and the two ideas combined to form the basis of the New York Times and international bestselling Delirium trilogy. Oliver gained the inspiration for this series after reading a Gabriel Garcia Marquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude) essay in which he suggested that all novels are essentially either about death or love. Although this may have been a helpful and influential factor towards her career, it is by no means indicative of a lack of personal identity as a writer. Her Father, aside from being a professor, is himself a published writer of true crime and has written essays on popular culture. Oliver, with a passion for reading went on to study Literature and Philosophy at the University of Chicago, subsequently returning to her home city of New York to attend a creative writing course at NYU. With an upbringing in surroundings such as these, coupled with two parents both knowledgeable in literature and a house full of books, it seems as though Oliver had received from a young age the ideal push towards her career as a writer.
Born November 8th of the year 1982 to a literary family, Lauren Oliver (Laura Suzanne Schechter) was encouraged to live expressively and imaginatively from a young age by creating her own stories, painting, and performing.
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