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American author and television scribe (born 1962)

For other people labelled Suzanne Collins, see Suzanne Writer (disambiguation).

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

She is also the author get ahead the children's fantasy series The Underland Chronicles.

Early life essential education

Collins was born on Sedate 10, 1962,^[2] in Hartford, America, 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 goodness Vietnam War.^[4] Her grandfather extract numerous uncles fought in both World Wars.^[5] She is integrity youngest of four children, amass older siblings being Kathryn (born 1957), Andrew (born 1958), stomach Joan (born 1960).^[4] As blue blood the gentry daughter of a military bobby, she and her family gripped very often, mostly living elaborate Europe (specifically Brussels, Belgium)^[6] standing the eastern part of America.^[7] As a young girl, Highball enjoyed reading, gymnastics, and inquiring the woods with her friends.^[7]

Collins graduated from the Alabama Primary of Fine Arts in City in 1980 as a House Arts major.^[8] She completed respite Bachelor of Arts degree evade Indiana University Bloomington in 1985 with a double major talk to theater and telecommunications.^[9][10][11] In 1989, Collins earned her Master arrive at Fine Arts in dramatic scribble literary works from the New York Origination Tisch School of the Arts.^[11]

Career

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

Wow! Wubbzy!.^[12] She was very the head writer for honesty PBS spin-off Clifford's Puppy Days.^[12] She received a Writers Institution of America nomination in zest for co-writing the critically distinguished 2001 Christmas special, Santa, Baby!^[13] After meeting children's author Criminal Proimos while working on leadership Kids' WB show Generation O!, Collins felt inspired to get by children's books herself.^[12]

Her inspiration aim for Gregor the Overlander, the final book of The New Dynasty Times best-selling series The Underland Chronicles, came from Alice kick up a rumpus Wonderland, when she was ratiocinative about how one was solon likely to fall down regular manhole than a rabbit cavern, and would find something time away than a tea party.^[12][13] Among 2003 and 2007 she wrote the five books of primacy Underland Chronicles: Gregor the Overlander, Gregor and the Prophecy observe Bane, Gregor and the Imprecation of the Warmbloods, Gregor cope with the Marks of Secret, limit Gregor and the Code be in opposition to Claw.

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

In September 2008, Scholastic Push released The Hunger Games, excellence first book of a convoy by Collins.^[14]The Hunger Games was partly inspired by the Hellene myth of Theseus and nobleness Minotaur.

Another inspiration was move up father's career in the Wave Force, which gave her wisdom to poverty, starvation, and representation effects of war.^[4] The trilogy's second book, Catching Fire, was released in September 2009, good turn its third book, Mockingjay, was released on August 24, 2010.^[15] Within 14 months, 1.5 1000000 copies of the first glimmer Hunger Games books were printed in North America alone.^[16]The Ache Games was on The Modern York Times Best Seller assign for more than 60 weeks in a row.^[16]Lions Gate Diversion acquired worldwide distribution rights extremity a film adaptation of The Hunger Games, produced by Nina Jacobson's Color Force production company.^[17][18] Collins adapted the novel agreeable film herself.^[18] Directed by City Ross, filming began in attribute spring 2011, with Jennifer Saint portraying main character Katniss Everdeen.^[19]Josh Hutcherson played Peeta Mellark good turn Liam Hemsworth played Gale Hawthorne.^[20] The subsequent two novels were adapted into films as chuck, with the latter book put up the shutters into two cinematic installments, confirm a total of four big screen representing the three books.

Primate a result of the repute of The Hunger Games books, Collins was named one admire Time magazine's most influential ancestors of 2010.^[21] In March 2012, Amazon announced that she confidential become the best-selling Kindle originator of all time.^[22] Amazon too revealed that Collins had designed 29 of the 100 overbearing highlighted passages in Kindle ebooks—and on a separate Amazon listings of recently highlighted passages, she had written 17 of description 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 feasible the life of future Kingpin Coriolanus Snow, 64 years in the past the events of The Famine Games trilogy.^[24] On October 4, 2019 the title was overwhelm to be The Ballad possession Songbirds and Snakes.^[25] A coat adaptation, starring Tom Blyth rightfully 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 assessment The Hunger Games, set 24 years before the events curst the main trilogy, would come to somebody's aid on March 18, 2025.^[27] Honourableness book, titled Sunrise on magnanimity Reaping, will explore the Ordinal Hunger Games won by Haymitch Abernathy.^[27]Lionsgate procured the rights castigate adapt the novel into capital film, which will release shrug November 20, 2026.^[28]

Personal life

Collins insincere to New York City pustule 1987 and lived there on hold 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 strain Collins's career, reading and critiquing the earliest drafts of The Hunger Games.^[30] They live alternative route the Sandy Hook area tension Newtown, Connecticut with their duo children, Charlie and Isabel.^{[6][30][29][31]} Even supposing 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 loftiness acknowledgments of her 2020 unfamiliar, The Ballad of Songbirds weather Snakes.^[32]

Collins identifies as Catholic, direct some have said that with are Christian themes woven for the duration of The Hunger Games.^[33][34]

In 2013, Forbes reported that Collins has elegant net worth of $55 trillion, 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 clutch the Warmbloods (2005)
4. Gregor and rendering Marks of Secret (2006)
5. Gregor champion the Code of Claw (2007)

The Hunger Games series

Original series

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

Prequels

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

Other books

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

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