Lauren Kate is an internationally renowned author of young adult fiction, whose books have been translated into over thirty languages. Her impressive literary portfolio includes the bestselling novels "The Betrayal of Natalie Hargrove" and "Fallen", which remarkably reached #3 on The New York Times Best Seller List for children's chapter books on January 8, 2010. As of April 6, 2011, "Fallen" had spent an astonishing one year and four months, with brief interruptions, on the List.
The highly anticipated sequel to "Fallen", "Torment", was released on September 28, 2010, and debuted at #1 on the New York Times Bestseller List, with "Fallen" coming in at #2 that week. The paperback edition of "Fallen" also debuted at #1 on the list. The third installment in the "Fallen" series, "Passion", was released on June 14, 2011, accompanied by a new edition of "Natalie Hargrove" and the paperback edition of "Torment". "Passion" swiftly reached Number 7 on the USA Today Bestseller List, covering books overall, and on July 3, 2011, it qualified the "Fallen" books for the Series section of the New York Times Bestseller List, entering the list at Number 2, behind "The Hunger Games" books. Each of these books has topped numerous bestseller lists across various countries.
Lauren Kate is set to release "Fallen in Love", a collection of novellas set in the Middle Ages, which will delve into the back-stories of several main characters from the "Fallen" series, in January 2012. The final installment of the series, "Rapture", is scheduled to arrive in June 2012.
Notably, Disney optioned the film rights to the entire "Fallen" series on the day of "Fallen"'s release, December 9, 2009.
