Suzanne Collins

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This article is about the author Suzanne Collins. For the Marine Lance Corporal, please see Suzanne Marie Collins.

Suzanne Collins is an American cartoon writer and author.

Suzanne started her career in 1991 by writing for children's television shows. For Nickelodeon, she worked on several television shows, including Clarissa Explains It All, The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo, Little Bear and Oswald the Octopus. She also helped on Clifford's Puppy Days.

When she met a man named James Proimos working on a Kids WB show called Generation O!, she was inspired to write children's books. The inspiration for Gregor the Overlander came from Alice in Wonderland,when she was thinking about how one was more likely to fall down a manhole than a rabbit hole, and would most likely find something other than a tea party.^[1]

Suzanne also has a rhyming picture book illustrated by Mike Lester entitled When Charlie McButton Lost Power. Gregor and the Code of Claw was released in 2007, as the last book of The Underland Chronicles.

Suzanne is the author of an upcoming novel entitled The Hunger Games. It is scheduled to be released in October of 2008.

She now lives in Connecticut with her family along with a pair of feral kittens they found in their backyard and adopted.