She received a Writer’s Guild of America nomination in animation for co-writing the critically acclaimed Christmas special, Santa, Baby! She has worked on the staffs of several Nickelodeon shows, including the Emmy®-nominated hit Clarissa Explains It All and The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo. Suzanne Collins also had a successful and prolific career writing for children’s television. Year of the Jungle, Suzanne Collins’s picture book based on the year her father was deployed in Vietnam, with illustrations by James Proimos, was published in 2013 to great critical acclaim. To date, the franchise has earned nearly $3 Billion at the worldwide box office. In 2012 Lionsgate launched the first of four films based on the novels, starring Jennifer Lawrence. Foreign publishing rights for The Hunger Games Trilogy have been sold into 56 territories in 53 languages to date. The book appeared on the New York Times bestseller list for more than 260 consecutive weeks (more than five consecutive years), and there are more than 100 million copies of all three books in the trilogy, The Hunger Games, Catching Fire (2009), and Mockingjay (2010), in print and digital formats worldwide. It was called "addictive" by Stephen King in Entertainment Weekly and "amazing" by Stephenie Meyer on her website.
The Hunger Games (2008) was an instant bestseller, appealing to both teen readers and adults.
She continued to explore the effects of war and violence on those coming of age with The Hunger Games Trilogy. Bestselling author Suzanne Collins first made her mark in children’s literature with the New York Times bestselling Underland Chronicles fantasy series for middle grade readers.
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