American writer Suzanne Collins is the author of the best-selling ‘The Hunger Games’ series and ‘The Underland Chronicles.’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. In 2008, her first book of The Hunger Games series was published. The best-selling trilogy was adapted into a blockbuster film series starring Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen.
While The Underland Chronicles made Collins a well-known author, it was her next series that ratcheted up her celebrity status. As Collins later recalled, The Hunger Games trilogy was born while she was watching television late one night. Flipping through the channels, Collins was suddenly struck by the lack of distinction between reality TV and coverage of the Iraq war: “We have so much programming coming at us all the time,” she says. “Is it too much? Are we becoming desensitized to the entire experience? … I can’t believe a certain amount of that isn’t happening.”
The Hunger Games revolves around the series’ rebel heroine, Katniss Everdeen, who lives in the post-apocalyptic nation of Panem, formerly known as North America. In Panem, the Hunger Games are an annual event in which young boys and girls fight to the death in a televised battle.
For Collins, The Hunger Games and her other books touch on the very subjects—necessary and unnecessary wars—that her own father often discussed with her. “If we introduce kids to these ideas earlier, we could get a dialogue about war going earlier and possibly it would lead to more solutions,” she says. “I just feel it isn’t discussed, not the way it should be. … I know from my experience that we are quite capable of understanding things and processing them at an early age.”
The series’ first book, The Hunger Games, was released in 2008. Its two sequels, Catching Fire and Mockingjay, were published in 2009 and 2010, respectively. The series became a huge success, selling more than 100 million copies around the world.
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