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Name of the author: Veronica Roth
Main genre: Young Adult, Science Fiction, Dystopia
Main audience: Young Adult on
Main books: Divergent Series, Carve the Mark, various short stories
Short summary of the author: Veronica Roth came into vast public attention with the publishing of her book Divergent (and the Divergent sequels). Since then, movies have been made of the Divergent series, so she is pretty firmly ensconced in the awareness as an author of some influence in this 'modern' world.

Goodreads has this about Veronica Roth

Veronica Roth is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Carve the Mark and the Divergent Series (Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant, and Four: A Divergent Collection). Her short stories and essays have appeared in Summer Days and Summer Nights, Shards and Ashes, and the upcoming Three Sides of a Heart. The Divergent Series was developed into three major motion pictures.

Veronica grew up outside of Chicago and graduated from Northwestern University. She now lives in Chicago proper with her husband and dog and writes full-time.

My library has this about her

Veronica Roth was born on August 19, 1988 in New York. She graduated from Northwestern University's creative writing program. She is a full-time author whose books include Divergent, Insurgent, and Allegiant. Divergent was adapted into a movie in 2014. In 2015 Insurgent made The New York Time Best Seller List. She also wrote four short stories from Divergent's character, Tobias Eaton's point of view. That book, entitled Four: A Divergent Collection, made the New York Times bestseller list in 2014. She wrote Carve the Mark which made the bestseller list in February 2017. The Fates Divided, which is the sequel to Carve the Mark, was publised April 2018.

Title of the book: Divergent
Authors Veronica Roth
Series: Yes -
Genres: Young Adult, Dystopia, Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy
Short summary of the story: Set in some other place and some other time, Beatrice is approaching the age of 16 when she must make a decision as to which faction she will join -- and remain in for the rest of her life. The society in which she lives has 5 factions from which to choose, and a faction (the factionless) into which those who either don't choose or cannot meet the standards of the chosen faction, go. So she goes to the time and place, and leaves the faction in which she was born and raised (Abnegation) and joins Dauntless. This causes the rift in her family, made because her older brother had also left the family, to go to Erudite, to escalate to a high degree. However, Beatrice continues on her chosen path and finds out that while things are vastly different in Dauntless, there is much that is the same. There is the continual striving to be 'better than' (which is even evinced in Abnegation even if it is allegedly based in 'selflessness') but in Dauntless, things are a lot more difficult because the physical violence (according to what she experiences) can be explicit.
Good points / bad points: This is a story which I'd read some time ago, and it wasn't my cup of tea at the time. I had no idea of how a society could split itself up into these 'factions' -- who would do such a thing and how would it happen? Why? This time I read it as a story -- this is how it is and this is what happens -- without wondering about or going into the backstory. That said, once I got into the story, it was an amazing fast read! Be aware, though, if you don't like to read scenes of physical violence and/or hazing of a personal nature, this book is not for you.

Goodreads has this about Divergent

In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue—Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is—she can't have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself.

During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris and struggles alongside her fellow initiates to live out the choice they have made. Together they must undergo extreme physical tests of endurance and intense psychological simulations, some with devastating consequences. As initiation transforms them all, Tris must determine who her friends really are—and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes fascinating, sometimes exasperating boy fits into the life she's chosen. But Tris also has a secret, one she's kept hidden from everyone because she's been warned it can mean death. And as she discovers unrest and growing conflict that threaten to unravel her seemingly perfect society, she also learns that her secret might help her save those she loves . . . or it might destroy her.