Lauren Oliver is co-founder and President of Production of the media and content development company Glasstown Entertainment, one of the leading content creators for young adults in the world.
She is also the multi- New York Times bestselling author of YA novels including Before I Fall, the Delirium trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, and Requiem, Panic, Vanishing Girls, Broken Things, and the Replica duology. Her novels have been translated into more than thirty-five languages and sold more than 3.5 million copies worldwide.
Oliver is executive producer, creator and sole screenwriter on every episode of the Amazon Original series Panic, based on her bestselling novel of the same name. The series will premiere in 2021, with Glasstown's Lynley Bird co-exec producing. Additional executiv
Lauren Oliver is co-founder and President of Production of the media and content development company Glasstown Entertainment, one of the leading content creators for young adults in the world.
She is also the multi- New York Times bestselling author of YA novels including Before I Fall, the Delirium trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, and Requiem, Panic, Vanishing Girls, Broken Things, and the Replica duology. Her novels have been translated into more than thirty-five languages and sold more than 3.5 million copies worldwide.
Oliver is executive producer, creator and sole screenwriter on every episode of the Amazon Original series Panic, based on her bestselling novel of the same name. The series will premiere in 2021, with Glasstown's Lynley Bird co-exec producing. Additional executive producers are Joe Roth, Jeff Kirschenbaum and Adam Schroeder. Alyssa Altman of Roth Kirschenbaum Films is an additional co-exec producer.
In August of 2019, Amazon Studios announced a first-look deal with Oliver's Glasstown Entertainment. Glasstown is working with Amazon to develop television series that will premiere exclusively on Amazon Prime Video in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. Amazon Studios subsequently acquired the television rights to I Hope You Get This Message, the debut novel by Farah Naz Rishi developed by Glasstown. Rishi is attached to adapt the book for the series, with Glasstown also set to produce. Additionally, Amazon Studios acquired the television rights to Sara Holland's YA fantasy series, Havenfall, another Glasstown property, with Glasstown and Weed Road Pictures producing.
Glasstown Entertainment was co-founded with poet and author Lexa Hillyer in 2010. Since then, Glasstown has developed and sold more than seventy-five novels for readers of all ages. Titles include Shine, by K-Pop star, actress and fashion model Jessica Jung, published on September 29, 2020 as the first of a two-book deal with Simon Pulse, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, which premiered on the New York Times BestSeller list at #5 in the Young Adult Hardcover category. Additionally, Glasstown has sold the novel in seventeen foreign territories and is currently developing it for film and television. Other Glasstown titles include Dylan Farrow's debut novel, Hush, a feminist fantasy developed published on October 2, 2020 by Wednesday Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group; Krysten Ritter's critically acclaimed literary thriller Bonfire, the New York Times bestselling series Everless by Sara Holland, and The Hunger by Alma Katsu, which received multiple starred reviews and was praised by Stephen King as "disturbing, hard to put down" and "not recommended…after dark."
The film rights to Oliver's bestselling first novel, Before I Fall, were acquired by Awesomeness Films and adapted into a major motion picture starring Zoey Deutch. It debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 2017, garnering a wide release from Open Road Films that year.
Oliver is a 2012 E.B. White Read-Aloud Award nominee for her middle-grade novel Liesl & Po, as well as the author of the middle-grade fantasy novel The Spindlers and the New York Times bestselling Curiosity House series, co-written with H.C. Chester. Her newest middle-grade novel, The Magnificent Monsters of Cedar Street, was published February 11, 2020 by Harper Children's book division; it was a Junior Library Guild selection and garnered three pre-publication starred reviews. She has written one novel for adults, Rooms, a Los Angeles Times bestseller.
She divides her time between Los Angeles and Connecticut.
