Veronica Roth. Author. Veronica Roth joins the Celebrity 100 list rankings thanks to the runaway success of Divergent, a young adult trilogy which propelled her to $17 million in earnings. The dystopian novels have sold more than 7 million copies in the U. S. over the last 12 months alone. Divergent's 2014 film adaption grossed more than $270 million worldwide. Roth penned the trilogy's first novel, Divergent, while on winter break during her senior year at Northwestern University. The 25-year-old is one of the youngest members of the Celebrity 100 list; she boasts 350,000 Twitter followers.