The television film and spinoff series were later cancelled. The theatrical release for Ascendant was cancelled in favor of it being a television film and spinoff series. Former Part 1 is called The Divergent Series: Allegiant, and was released on March 18, 2016, and former Part 2 is named The Divergent Series: Ascendant, and was scheduled to be released on March 24, 2017. On April 11, 2014, Summit Entertainment announced that the third book, Allegiant, would be split into two films, part 1 and part 2. On March 21, 2014, Lionsgate officially greenlit the film adaptation of Insurgent. Filming of Divergent, the adaptation of the first book in the series, was started in April 2013, and the film was released in March 2014. Roth sold the film rights to The Divergent Series to Summit Entertainment. Her first two novels sold over five million copies worldwide by fall 2013, just as the film based on the first novel was wrapping up.

Her career took off rapidly with the success of her Divergent, with the publishing rights sold before she graduated from college in 2010 and the film rights sold mid-March 2011, before the novel was printed in April 2011. Roth wrote her first book, Divergent, while on winter break in her senior year at Northwestern University, and found an agent by the following March. Roth married photographer Nelson Fitch in 2011.

After one year at Carleton College, she transferred to Northwestern University for its creative writing program. Roth went to Grove Avenue Elementary School, Prairie Middle School, and Barrington High School. Roth learned about Christianity by attending a Christian Bible study during her high school years, and has stayed with it. Now I have a good relationship with my stepdad.' Her maternal grandparents were concentration camp survivors, whose religious convictions pushed her mother away from religion. Roth says of her father: 'He had a job, and worked far away. Her brother and sister live in the Chicago area. Her parents divorced when she was five years old, and her mother has since remarried to Frank Ross, a financial consultant for landscaping companies. Her mother, Barbara Ross, is a painter who resides in Barrington. Veronica Roth was born on Augin New York City, and was raised primarily in Barrington, Illinois.

Veronica Anne Roth (born August 19, 1988) is an American novelist and short story writer, known for her bestselling Divergent trilogy which has sold more than 35 million copies worldwide.

The Fates Divide by Veronica Roth