She was named one of Time magazine’s most influential people of 2010 and two years later, she became the bestselling Kindle author of all time. The Hunger Games helped make Collins a household name. She adapted The Hunger Games for film herself. The Hunger Games spent more than 60 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, and Collins followed the novel with two more over the next two years, Catching Fire and Mockingjay. While the Underland Chronicles were popular, Collins rose to fame after publishing The Hunger Games in 2008. In 2003, she published her first novel, Gregor the Overlander, and went on to publish four more novels in what’s now known as the Underland Chronicles. In 1991, she began to write for children’s television shows on Nickelodeon and for Scholastic Entertainment. Several years later, she completed a Master of Fine Arts in dramatic writing from New York University. (In Ballad’s acknowledgments, Collins credits her father with both introducing her to military strategy and to Enlightenment-era political theory.) She received a bachelor’s degree from Indiana University Bloomington she double majored in theater and telecommunications. Her father was an Air Force officer, so the family moved often but generally stayed in the eastern United States. Suzanne Collins is the youngest of four children.
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