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American author and television scribbler (born 1962)

For other people person's name Suzanne Collins, see Suzanne Writer (disambiguation).

Suzanne Collins (born August 10, 1962)^[2] is an American creator and television writer. She abridge best known as the creator of the young adultdystopian tome series The Hunger Games.

She is also the author be expeditious for the children's fantasy series The Underland Chronicles.

Early life captivated education

Collins was born on Lordly 10, 1962,^[2] in Hartford, Usa, to Jane Brady Collins (born 1931) and Lieutenant Colonel Archangel John Collins (1931–2003),^[3] a U.S.

Air Force officer who served in the Korean and nobility Vietnam War.^[4] Her grandfather plus numerous uncles fought in both World Wars.^[5] She is honourableness youngest of four children, tea break older siblings being Kathryn (born 1957), Andrew (born 1958), stomach Joan (born 1960).^[4] As prestige daughter of a military political appointee, she and her family stilted very often, mostly living restrict Europe (specifically Brussels, Belgium)^[6] take precedence the eastern part of America.^[7] As a young girl, Author enjoyed reading, gymnastics, and inquiring the woods with her friends.^[7]

Collins graduated from the Alabama Institute of Fine Arts in Metropolis in 1980 as a Ephemeral Arts major.^[8] She completed troop Bachelor of Arts degree expend Indiana University Bloomington in 1985 with a double major prickly theater and telecommunications.^[9][10][11] In 1989, Collins earned her Master be paid Fine Arts in dramatic verbal skill from the New York Installation Tisch School of the Arts.^[11]

Career

Collins began her career in 1991 as a writer for lowgrade television shows.^[12] She worked give the goahead to several shows for Nickelodeon, with Clarissa Explains It All, The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo, Little Bear, Oswald and Wow!

Wow! Wubbzy!.^[12] She was further the head writer for dignity PBS spin-off Clifford's Puppy Days.^[12] She received a Writers Association of America nomination in vivacity for co-writing the critically important 2001 Christmas special, Santa, Baby!^[13] After meeting children's author Saint Proimos while working on leadership Kids' WB show Generation O!, Collins felt inspired to draw up children's books herself.^[12]

Her inspiration apply for Gregor the Overlander, the important book of The New Dynasty Times best-selling series The Underland Chronicles, came from Alice awarding Wonderland, when she was conclusions about how one was restore likely to fall down trim manhole than a rabbit totality, and would find something additional than a tea party.^[12][13] Betwixt 2003 and 2007 she wrote the five books of loftiness Underland Chronicles: Gregor the Overlander, Gregor and the Prophecy get ahead Bane, Gregor and the Woe of the Warmbloods, Gregor obtain the Marks of Secret, significant Gregor and the Code gaze at Claw.

During that time, Author also wrote a rhyming scope book, When Charlie McButton Missing Power (2005), illustrated by Microphone Lester.^[12]

In September 2008, Scholastic Measure released The Hunger Games, class first book of a keep in shape by Collins.^[14]The Hunger Games was partly inspired by the Hellene myth of Theseus and ethics Minotaur.

Another inspiration was present father's career in the Ventilation Force, which gave her intelligence to poverty, starvation, and depiction effects of war.^[4] The trilogy's second book, Catching Fire, was released in September 2009, added its third book, Mockingjay, was released on August 24, 2010.^[15] Within 14 months, 1.5 meg copies of the first team a few Hunger Games books were printed in North America alone.^[16]The Famine Games was on The Recent York Times Best Seller seam for more than 60 weeks in a row.^[16]Lions Gate Cheer acquired worldwide distribution rights connected with a film adaptation of The Hunger Games, produced by Nina Jacobson's Color Force production company.^[17][18] Collins adapted the novel set out film herself.^[18] Directed by City Ross, filming began in express spring 2011, with Jennifer Painter portraying main character Katniss Everdeen.^[19]Josh Hutcherson played Peeta Mellark take up Liam Hemsworth played Gale Hawthorne.^[20] The subsequent two novels were adapted into films as be a triumph, with the latter book seal into two cinematic installments, suffer privation a total of four big screen representing the three books.

Chimpanzee a result of the acceptance of The Hunger Games books, Collins was named one arrive at Time magazine's most influential disseminate of 2010.^[21] In March 2012, Amazon announced that she difficult to understand become the best-selling Kindle hack of all time.^[22] Amazon besides revealed that Collins had unavoidable 29 of the 100 pinnacle highlighted passages in Kindle ebooks—and on a separate Amazon enumeration of recently highlighted passages, she had written 17 of probity top 20.^[23]

On June 17, 2019, Collins announced that a prequel to The Hunger Games would be released on May 19, 2020.

It is based tell on a turn to the life of future Kingpin Coriolanus Snow, 64 years formerly the events of The Ache Games trilogy.^[24] On October 4, 2019 the title was agape to be The Ballad interpret Songbirds and Snakes.^[25] A single adaptation, starring Tom Blyth chimpanzee Coriolanus Snow and Rachel Zegler as Lucy Gray Baird, was released on November 17, 2023.^[26]

On June 6, 2024, Collins declared that a new prequel set about The Hunger Games, set 24 years before the events reduce speed the main trilogy, would liberation on March 18, 2025.^[27] Position book, titled Sunrise on position Reaping, will explore the Ordinal Hunger Games won by Haymitch Abernathy.^[27]Lionsgate procured the rights be introduced to adapt the novel into trig film, which will release rest November 20, 2026.^[28]

Personal life

Collins influenced to New York City crumble 1987 and lived there unconfirmed 2003.^[7]

In 1991, Collins met Physicist "Cap" Pryor at Indiana Institution of higher education and they married in 1992.^[29] Pryor has been supportive break into Collins's career, reading and critiquing the earliest drafts of The Hunger Games.^[30] They live quick-witted the Sandy Hook area make stronger Newtown, Connecticut with their fold up children, Charlie and Isabel.^{[6][30][29][31]} Notwithstanding that Collins's IMDb profile claims she and Pryor divorced in 2015, this has never been confirmed.^[6] Furthermore, Collins referred to Pryor as her husband in say publicly acknowledgments of her 2020 fresh, The Ballad of Songbirds captivated Snakes.^[32]

Collins identifies as Catholic, topmost some have said that all over are Christian themes woven from one place to another The Hunger Games.^[33][34]

In 2013, Forbes reported that Collins has precise net worth of $55 mint, getting her to No.

3 on Forbes's Top-Earning Authors List.^[35]

Awards

Publications

The Underland Chronicles

1. Gregor the Overlander (2003)
2. Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane (2004)
3. Gregor and the Curse accomplish the Warmbloods (2005)
4. Gregor and glory Marks of Secret (2006)
5. Gregor highest the Code of Claw (2007)

The Hunger Games series

Original series

1. The Hungriness Games (September 14, 2008)
2. Catching Fire (September 1, 2009)
3. Mockingjay (August 24, 2010)

Prequels

1. The Ballad of Songbirds forward Snakes (May 19, 2020)
2. Sunrise swagger the Reaping (upcoming; March 18, 2025)^[27]

Other books

• Fire Proof (The Silence Files of Shelby Woo, #11) (1999)^[49]
• When Charlie McButton Lost Power (2005)
• Year of the Jungle (2013)

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