Suzanne Collins
Suzanne Collins is an American novelist, television writer, and screenwriter working in speculative fiction and children's literature.
Born in Hartford on August 10, 1962, Collins pursued her education at the Alabama School of Fine Arts, Indiana University, and the New York University Tisch School of the Arts. Her professional career has spanned journalism, television writing, screenwriting, and work as an executive producer, reflecting a range of roles across written and broadcast media. She writes in English and has worked across multiple genres, including science fiction and children's literature.
Collins is the author of The Underland Chronicles, a series that includes the novel Gregor the Overlander, as well as The Hunger Games, works that have earned her recognition in both the United States and the United Kingdom. Among the awards she has received are the Geffen Award, the Children's Book Award in the UK, the Children's Bookshop Prize, and the Christopher Award. Her body of work is consistently associated with the genre of speculative fiction, a thread that runs across her novels for younger readers and connects her contributions as both a children's writer and a science fiction writer.
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They can pump whatever they want into my arm but it takes more than that to keep a person going once she’s lost the will to live.
Not only does he hate me, and want to kill me, he no longer believes I’m human. It was less painful being strangled.
Yeah, we wouldn’t want to lose our little Mockingjay when she’s finally begun to sing.
As we ride the elevator Gale finally says “You’re still angry.” “And you’re still not sorry,” I reply. “I will stand by what I said. Do you want me to lie about it?” he asks. “No, I want you to rethink it and come up with the right opinion,” I tell him.
Life in District 12 isn’t really so different from life in the arena. At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead. The.
I can almost hear Haymitch groaning as I team up with this wispy child. But I want her. Because she’s a survivor, and I trust her, and why not admit it? She reminds me of Prim.