A big fan of her writing, it was Proimos who urged Collins to try writing books. Her work for those shows soon caught the notice of James Proimos, creator of the WB children's program Generation O!, who hired Collins as his head writer. TV Writingįollowing graduate school, Collins moved into television, writing for several children's television programs, including Clarissa Explains It All and Little Bear.
She then went on to earn a master's degree in dramatic writing from New York University. Collins then enrolled at Indiana University, where she graduated in 1985 as a double major in theater and telecommunications. So throughout our lives we basically heard about war."Įventually, Collins and her family ended up in the South, where she graduated high school from the Alabama School of Fine Arts in 1980. It was a very comprehensive tour guide experience. It would start back with whatever had precipitated the war and moved up through the battlefield you were standing in and through that and after that. "He would take us frequently to places like battlefields and war monuments. "I believe he felt a great responsibility and urgency about educating his children about war," Collins says. Much of that was driven by Collins' father, who taught history at the college level and was open with his kids about his military experience, including his deployment to Vietnam. The daughter of an Air Force officer, Collins moved a considerable amount during her childhood, living in places like New York City and Brussels.įor the Collins family, history was an immensely important topic. The youngest of four children, Collins was born on August 10, 1962, in Hartford, Connecticut. The best-selling trilogy was adapted into a blockbuster film series starring Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen. In 2008, her first book of The Hunger Games series was published. Suzanne Collins is an American author who published her debut book, Gregor the Overlander, the first of the five-part The Underland Chronicles, in 2003.
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