Suzanne Collins is an American author, born in Connecticut in 1962, best known as the creator of The Hunger Games - one of the defining publishing phenomena of the twenty-first century.
The daughter of a US Air Force officer who served in Korea and Vietnam, she grew up moving between Europe and the eastern United States, and the realities of war and its cost run deep through her fiction. She began her career writing for children's television before turning to books with the five-part fantasy series the Underland Chronicles.
The Hunger Games, in which teenagers from a subjugated nation are forced to fight to the death in a televised spectacle, became a global sensation across its trilogy - The Hunger Games, Catching Fire and Mockingjay - and a blockbuster film franchise that made a star of Jennifer Lawrence. She has since returned to the world of Panem with the prequels The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and Sunrise on the Reaping, also adapted for the screen.
Deliberately private and unhurried, publishing only when she has something to say, she writes fiercely intelligent fiction that uses spectacle to ask hard questions about war, power and complicity.
