

She published its sequel, Crossed, in 2011, and the trilogy was completed in 2012 with the publication of Reached.


In November 2010, the book was published by Dutton Penguin. He posed the question: what if someone wrote the perfect algorithm for matching people with one another, and the government used it to decide who you married, when you married, and so forth? From this, as well as memories of chaperoning a high school Junior Prom and attending a matching dance in high school, Ally Condie spent about nine months writing Matched, which she admits was a short amount of time for her, in comparison to the completion of her other novels. Ally Condie primarily drew inspiration for Matched from a conversation she and her husband had over dinner one night in late 2008.
