Suzanne Collins ( Trilogi Hunger Games )

Suzanne Collins

This article is about the author. For other people named Suzanne Collins see Suzanne Collins (disambiguation).

Suzanne Collins (born August 10, 1962) is an American television writer and novelist, best known as the author of The New York Times best selling series The Underland Chronicles and The Hunger Games trilogy (which consists of The Hunger Games,Catching Fire, and Mockingjay).

Collins was born on August 10, 1962 in Hartford, Connecticut. She is the daughter of aU.S. Air Force officer who served in the Vietnam War. As the
daughter of a military officer, she and her family were constantly moving. She spent her childhood in the eastern U.S.She attended high school at the Alabama School of Fine Arts, where she was a Theater Arts major. She graduated from Indiana University with a double major in Drama and Telecommunications.Early life
Career

Collins' career began in 1991 as a writer for children's television shows. She worked on several television shows for Nickelodeon, including Clarissa Explains It All, The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo, Little Bear, and Oswald.She was also the head writer for Scholastic Entertainment's Clifford's Puppy Days.[5] She received a Writers Guild of America nomination in animation for co-writing the critically acclaimed Christmas special,Santa, Baby!

After meeting children's author James Proimos while working on the Kids' WB showGeneration O!, Collins was inspired to write children's books herself. Her inspiration forGregor the Overlander, the first book of The New York Times best selling series The Underland Chronicles, came from Alice in Wonderland, when she was thinking about how one was more likely to fall down a manhole than a rabbit hole, and would find something other than a tea party. Between 2003 and 2007 she wrote the five books of the Underland Chronicles: Gregor the Overlander, Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane, Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods, Gregor and the Marks of Secret, and Gregor and the Code of Claw. During that time, Collins also wrote a rhyming picture book, When Charlie McButton Lost Power (2005), illustrated by Mike Lester.



In September 2008, Scholastic Press released The Hunger Games, the first book of a trilogy by Collins.The Hunger Games was partly inspired by the Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur. Another inspiration was her father's career in the Air Force, which allowed her to have better understanding of poverty, starvation, and the effects of war. The trilogy's second book, Catching Fire, was released in September 2009, and its third book, Mockingjay, was released on August 24, 2010. Within 14 months, 1.5 million copies of the first two Hunger Games books were printed in North America alone. The Hunger Games has been on The New York TimesBest Seller list for more than 60 weeks in a row.Lions Gate Entertainment acquired worldwide distribution rights to a film adaptation of The Hunger Games, produced by Nina Jacobson's Color Force production company.Collins adapted the novel for film herself. Directed by Gary Ross, filming began in late spring 2011, with Jennifer Lawrence portraying main character Katniss Everdeen. Josh Hutcherson played Peeta Mellark and Liam Hemsworth played Gale Hawthorne.

As a result of the significant popularity of The Hunger Games books, Collins was named one of Time magazine's most influential people of 2010. In March 2012, Amazon announced that Collins had become the best-selling Kindle author of all time. Amazon also revealed that Collins had written 29 of the 100 most highlighted passages in Kindle ebooks—and on a separate Amazon list of recently highlighted passages, Collins had written 17 of the top 20.

Personal life
Collins resides in Sandy Hook, Connecticut, with her husband and their two children. She is a Roman Catholic.
Publications

The Underland Chronicles

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

The Hunger Games trilogy
1. The Hunger Games (2008)
2. Catching Fire (2009)
3. Mockingjay (2010)

Other books
Fire Proof: Shelby Woo #11 (1999)
When Charlie McButton Lost Power (2005)
When Charlie McButton Gained Power (2009)

Awards
2011 - California Young Reader Medal
2010 - Georgia Peach Book Awards for Teen Readers
Publishers Weekly's Best Books of the Year: Children's Fiction
An American Library Association Top 10 Best Books For Young Adult Selection
An ALA Notable Children's Book
2008 CYBIL Award--Fantasy and Science Fiction
KIRKUS Best Young Adult Book of 2008
A Horn Book Fanfare
School Library Journal Best Books of 2008
A Book List Editor's Choice, 2008
NY Public Library 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing
2004 NAIBA Children's Novel Award
2006 ALSC Notable Children's Recording (audio version)

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8. ^ Staskiewicz, Keith (February 11, 2010). "Final 'Hunger Games' novel has been given a title and a cover" . Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved February 11, 2010.

9. Collins, Suzanne. "Suzanne Collins's Third Book in The Hunger Games Trilogy to be Published on August 24, 2010." . Scholastic. Retrieved February 9, 2010.

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