Suzanne Collins
Suzanne Collins ( born August 10, 1962 in Hartford, New Jersey ) is an American author of cartoons and children's and youth literature.
Life
Suzanne Collins ' career began in 1991 as a writer for the American children's television, including for Nickelodeon. It was inspired by the American children's author James Proimos to write my own children's books.
For her first book, Gregor and the gray prophecy she was inspired by the story of Alice in Wonderland. In 2002, published first volume of a five-part adventure series became an international bestseller. The book is about Gregor and his little sister Boots, entering the so-called Lowlands " Regalia ".
In September 2008 Scholastic Press The Hunger Games, the first book of a new trilogy by Collins published. Was published in 2009, the German translation of Sylke Hachmeister under the title The Hunger Games, Deadly Games, and was a success. The story was inspired in part by the Roman history and according to Collins ' details of the career of her father in the United States Air Force, which gave her a better understanding of hunger and poverty and the effects of war. The author is, however, sharply criticized the blatant similarity of the story up to the accusation of plagiarism, the Japanese novel Battle Royale, and Stephen King's The Running Man. The book sold millions of copies. Collins was chosen by Time magazine to the list of 100 most influential people of 2010. The author also worked on the script, with the film adaptation of the first part of her work, The Hunger Games. The books have sold over 90 million copies.
In the center of the plot of the first volume, The Hunger Games - Deadly Games, is the 16 -year-old Katniss, which takes the place of her younger sister Prim in the "Hunger Games ", as these sent for a fight to the death in the arena should be. The sequels The Hunger Games - Dangerous love and Final The Hunger Games - Flaming anger appeared in 2010 and 2011.
Today Suzanne Collins lives with her husband and their two children in Connecticut.