The author who wrote Divergent was name Veronica Roth. Veronica said that one day she just had many ideas and was inspired to write a story. She only got about 30 pages into the book and then set it aside because she didn't really like the book. Veronica continued to think about her book that she wanted to write and after 4 years she came across with the idea to have a character named Beatrice or "Trice" for short.