Suzanne Collins Biography

QUICK FACTS
Activities Author , Screenwriter , Executive Producer more
Nationality USA
Born August 10, 1962 (Hartford, Connecticut)

BIOGRAPHY
Suzanne Collins began her career in 1991 as a writer for children’s television programs. She worked on several shows for Nickelodeon and was the head writer for Scholastic Entertainment’s Clifford’s Puppy Days . She received a Writers Guild of America nomination in animation for co-writing the acclaimed Christmas special, Santa, Baby! (2001). Between 2003 and 2007 she wrote the five Underland Chronicles books: 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. In September 2008, Scholastic Press released The Hunger Games , the first book in a successful trilogy that spawned the Lionsgate film The Hunger Games (2012) and the three Hunger Games sequels : Catching Fire (2013), The Hunger Games The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 (2014) and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 (2015). On June 17, 2019, Collins announced The Hunger Games prequel, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes , which will soon be adapted to the big screen.