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Suzanne Collins is a contemporary American writer, born in 1962 in the village of Sandy Hook, near Newtown. The daughter of an Air Force officer, she spent almost all of her childhood traveling with her father.

When she grew up, she began studying dramaturgy at New York University, where she later earned a Master of Fine Arts degree.

Her career began in 1991, when Suzanne started writing scripts for various children’s programs (series, shows, and animated series) on television. The writer joined Nickelodeon, where she worked on projects such as Clarissa Explains It All, The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo, Little Bear, and others. In addition, Suzanne became the lead writer of the animated series Clifford’s Puppy Days and one of the creators of Generation O! for Kids WB. It was work on the latter that became a turning point in Collins’s career — there she met children’s author James Proimos, who persuaded her to try writing a full-length book for children.

Inspired by Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, Collins wrote a fairy tale for children. Her 2003 debut was so successful that the author continued the adventures of the main character in five more books. Suzanne Collins’s next book was aimed not at young readers, but at teenagers.

After working on The Underland Chronicles, Collins began thinking about writing a book for a more adult audience. Thus, in 2008, a new bestseller was born — The Hunger Games. The writer states that the idea for the novel came from the ancient Greek myths of Theseus and the Minotaur and partly from her father’s memories, as an Air Force veteran, of poverty, hunger, and the consequences of war. For sixty weeks, the book topped the New York Times list of best-selling books, and Time magazine included Suzanne Collins in its list of the 100 most influential people of 2010. The second novel of the trilogy, Catching Fire, was published in September 2009, and the third, Mockingjay, on August 24, 2010.

In 2010–2011, Suzanne Collins worked on the screenplay for the film The Hunger Games. She wrote it together with director Gary Ross. The writer also took part