The Hunger Games
by Suzanne Collins
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Suzanne Collins
Suzanne Collins was writing for children long before her popular Hunger Games trilogy took the literary world by storm. However, she was writing for a different age group and a different genre, having started her literary career as a writer for children’s television shows. She wrote for several popular children’s television shows, includingLittle Bear, Oswald, Wow Wow Wubbzy, Clifford’s Puppy Days, and Clarissa Explains it All. She ventured into children’s books after a meeting with children’s author James Proimos and found immediate critical success with the Underland Chronicles, a modern retelling of Alice in Wonderland. However, that series did not see the same popular success as many children’s series, and Collins was able to remain under the radar, which is what she preferred.
In, September 2008, Collins’s novel, The Hunger Games, the first in a trilogy about a country named Panem that appears to be a post-apocalyptic America, was released by publisher Scholastic Press. It was followed quickly by Catching Fire in September 2009 and Mockingjay in August 2010. The books were a tremendous success, and a film adaptation of
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