Suzanne Collins
Suzanne Collins is an author. She was born in 1964 in Connecticut. Suzanne's career started in 1991 as a writer for television shows. She worked for Nickelodeon writing stuff for shows that were going to come out. She also wrote her book Clifford's Puppy Days. Her first nomination was a Writer's Guild of America for Santa Baby in animation.
Suzanne was inspired to write books herself. Suzanne writes in different genres which are fantasy, sci-fi, children, young adult, suspense, and action. Her inspiration for her first New York Times Bestselling series The Underland Chronicles comes from Alice in Wonderland. Between 2003-2007 she wrote 5 books which were all part of The Underland Chronicles. During that time she also wrote a rhyming book called When Charlie McButton Lost Power.
In 2008 she released the first book of trilogy The Hunger Games. Her inspiration for writing that book was from her dad's work in the Air Force also from the Greek myth Theseus and The Minotaur. In 2009 she released Catching Fire the second book of the trilogy. Last but not least she release Mockingay which is the final book of the trilogy. Since Suzanne's Hunger Games sold over 1.5 million copies in North America alone she was named as one of TIMES 100 most influential people of 2010.
Right now Suzanne is one of the most influntial authors of her time. She now lives in connecticut. She lives with 2 children and her husband.
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