“When you’re a writer, you start to take everything and twist it a little,” Condie explained.įor Condie, that meant taking the trappings of a high school prom - teenagers dressed up, wearing fancy dresses and suits, in an elegant setting - and transplanting it to a dystopian world where teenagers are told by the government who they will marry. Then, her idea spawned into what it would look like to take a high school prom - specifically Timpview in Provo - and dial up the craziness to 11. She thought what it would be like to write a book about a girl who didn’t get to choose who she got to marry.
For Utah author Ally Condie, it was while she was chaperoning a high school prom. Inspiration can strike authors in unusual places.
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