Suzanne Collins was born on August 10, 1962, in Hartford, Connecticut, to Jane Brady Collins (born 1932) and Lt.Col. Michael John Collins (1931–2003). Suzanne wanted to be an actress but when this failed she began to write. Collins began her career in 1991 as a writer for children telivision. She worked on several television shows for Nickelodean, including Clarissa Explains It All, The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo, Little Bear andd Oswald. After these television shows she decided she wanted to write a book this was going to be the first book of the Hungergames triologie and the book we chose for this site. For this book she won the following prices

#1 USA Today Bestseller
#1 New York Times Bestseller
#1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller
#1 Publishers Weekly Bestseller
A New York Times Notable Children's Book of 2010
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
A 2010 Booklist Editors' Choice
A 2010 Kirkus Best Book of the Year
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2010
An NPR Best Book of 2010

Other books Suzanne Collins wrote are: Fire Proof: Shelby Woo #11 (1999), When Charlie McButton Lost Power (2005), Year of the Jungle (2013), and the Underland Chronicles (Between 2003 and 2007) The books she wrote are Sci-fi (the hungergames triologie) and Fantasy( the Underland Chronicles