Veronica Roth is an American author best known for her Divergent trilogy of young adult novels. She wrote the books while still a student at Northwestern University and they were published in 2011. The first book in the series, Divergent, was a New York Times bestseller and was made into a major motion picture in 2014. Her last name, Roth, is the answer to the crossword puzzle clue 'Divergent author Veronica' (4 letters).