- Category:
- Richest Celebrities › Authors
- Net Worth:
- $30 Million
- Salary:
- $25 Million Per Year
- Date of Birth:
- Aug 19, 1988 (35 years old)
- Place of Birth:
- New York
- Gender:
- Female
- Profession:
- Author
- Nationality:
- United States of America
What is Veronica Roth's Net Worth?
Veronica Roth is an American novelist and short story writer known for her debut New York Times Bestselling novels, Divergent and Insurgent, who has a net worth of $30 million. Her third book, Allegiant, completes the "Divergent trilogy" and was released in 2013. Divergent was turned into a film, also entitled Divergent, and premiered on March 18, 2014. Roth was born in New York City, but was raised in Barrington, Illinois. She received her undergraduate degree from Northwestern University, which she chose because of its creative writing program, and started writing the first book in her trilogy while on winter break during her senior year. She is the recipient of the Goodreads 2011 Choice Award, and the Best of 2012 in the category Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction. Roth was also awarded the title of Best Goodreads Author in 2012. Her career took off quite quickly with the success of her first novel and the movie rights to Divergent being sold to Summit Entertainment before she graduated from college.
The filming of Divergent, which is the film adaptation of the first book in her series, was started in April 2013. She also has four short stories from Tobias Eaton's point of view that she is releasing to the public. The first story, The Transfer, was released in 2013, and the next three were released in July 2014. The short stories will be sold separately as e-books, and are also available as a compilation entitled, Four: A Divergent Story Collection. In 2011, she married photographer, Nelson Fitch, and the couple reside in Chicago. Veronica Roth is one of the highest paid authors in the world. In 2014 alone she earned $25 million.
