Love Is Real
“You love me. Real or not real?" I tell him, "Real.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay,
born August 10, 1962, is an American television writer and author, best known as the author of The New York Times best selling series The Underland Chronicles and The Hunger Games trilogy (which consists of The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and Mockingjay).
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay,
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| Suzanne Collins |
born August 10, 1962, is an American television writer and author, best known as the author of The New York Times best selling series The Underland Chronicles and The Hunger Games trilogy (which consists of The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and Mockingjay).
Suzanne Collins was born
on August 10, 1962, in Hartford, Connecticut, to Jane Brady Collins (born 1932)
and Lt.Col. Michael John Collins (1931–2003), a U.S. Air Force officer who served in the Korean War and the Vietnam War, and was awarded the Distinguished Flying
Cross and Bronze Star. She is the youngest of four children, who include Kathryn
(born 1957), Andrew (born 1958), and Joan (born 1960). As the daughter of a
military officer, she and her
family were constantly moving. She spent her childhood in the eastern United
States. Collins graduated from the Alabama School of
Fine Arts in Birmingham in 1980 as a Theater Arts major. She completed her
bachelor of arts degree from Indiana University in 1985 with a double major in theater and
telecommunications. In 1989, Collins earned her M.F.A. in dramatic writing from the New York University Tisch School of the
Arts.
Collins
began her career in 1991 as a writer for children's television shows.She
worked on several television shows for Nickelodeon,
including Clarissa Explains
It All, The Mystery
Files of Shelby Woo, Little Bear,
and Oswald. She did not
write the children's book Little Bear, which is sometimes mistaken as her own
book. She was also the head writer for Scholastic Entertainment's Clifford's Puppy Days. She received
a Writers Guild of
America nomination in animation for co-writing the critically
acclaimed Christmas special, Santa, Baby!
After meeting
children's author James Proimos while working on the Kids' WB show Generation O!, Collins felt inspired to
write children's books herself. Her
inspiration for Gregor the Overlander,
the first book of The New York Times best-selling
series The Underland
Chronicles, 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 find something other than a tea party. Between 2003 and
2007 she wrote the five books of the Underland Chronicles: Gregor the Overlander, Gregor and
the Prophecy of Bane, Gregor
and the Curse of the Warmbloods, Gregor and
the Marks of Secret, and Gregor and the
Code of Claw. During that time, Collins also wrote a rhyming
picture book, When Charlie McButton Lost Power (2005),
illustrated by Mike Lester.
In September
2008, Scholastic Press released The Hunger Games,
the first book of a trilogy by Collins. The Hunger Games was partly inspired by the Greek
myth of Theseus and the Minotaur.
Another inspiration was her father's career in the Air Force, which gave her insight to poverty,
starvation, and the effects of war.[3]The trilogy's second book, Catching Fire, was released in September
2009, and its third book, Mockingjay, was released on August 24,
2010. Within 14 months, 1.5 million copies of the first two Hunger
Games books were printed in North America alone. The Hunger
Games was on The New York Times Best Seller list for
more than 60 weeks in a row. Lions Gate
Entertainment acquired worldwide distribution rights to a film adaptation
of The Hunger Games, produced by Nina Jacobson's Color Force production company. Collins
adapted the novel for film herself. Directed by Gary Ross, filming began in late spring 2011,
with Jennifer Lawrence portraying
main character Katniss Everdeen. Josh Hutcherson played Peeta Mellark and Liam Hemsworth played Gale Hawthorne. The subsequent two novels
were adapted into films as well, with the latter book split into two cinematic
installments, for a total of four films representing the three books.
As a result
of the popularity of The Hunger Games books, Collins was named
one of Time magazine's most influential people of
2010. In March 2012, Amazon announced that Collins had become the
best-selling Kindle author of all time. Amazon also revealed that Collins had written 29 of the 100
most highlighted passages in Kindle ebooks—and on a separate Amazon list of
recently highlighted passages, Collins had written 17 of the top 20.
Love Is Real
Reviewed by CyberSpace2Day
on
Saturday, August 12, 2017
Rating: 5
Reviewed by CyberSpace2Day
on
Saturday, August 12, 2017
Rating: 5