Born: 10 August 1962, United States
Died: NA
Country most active: United States
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The following is excerpted from Infinite Women founder Allison Tyra’s book The View from the Hill: Women Who Made Their Mark After 40.
Born in 1962, author Suzanne Collins wrote for several children’s television shows on Nickelodeon and PBS that American children of the ‘90s like myself would recognize, like Clarissa Explains it All and The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo. But she didn’t start publishing novels until 2003’s Gregor the Overlander, the first in the popular Underland Chronicles series that she would write until 2007. And it wasn’t until the following year that she would publish her phenomenally successful The Hunger Games in 2008, followed by two more books in the trilogy as well as prequels. By the time the film adaptation of the first book came out in 2012 (with a screenplay largely written by Collins), more than 30 million copies of the series were in print in the U.S. alone, in addition to ebooks. The first five films—the original quartet and first prequel, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes—garnered almost $3.3 billion in revenue, placing it among the highest-grossing film franchises of all time. That figure is set to rise with the adaptation of the second prequel, which comes out after the publication of this book.