Suzanne collins author biography death

In , Suzanne Collins began her professional career writing for children's television.

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For preschool viewers, she penned multiple stories for the Emmy-nominated Little Bear and Oswald. Thinking one day about Alice in Wonderland, she was struck by how pastoral the setting must seem to kids who, like her own, lived in urban surroundings. In New York City, you're much more likely to fall down a manhole than a rabbit hole and, if you do, you're not going to find a tea party.

What you might find? It has been sold into 21 foreign territories. Her next series, The Hunger Games Trilogy, is an international bestseller. It has been sold into 54 territories in 52 languages. In , she was presented the Authors Guild Award for Distinguished Service to the Literary Community for exemplifying the unique power of young people's literature to change lives and create lifelong book lovers.

It was the first time the Guild presented the award to a YA author. It was the highest-grossing domestic box office release of and the 10th highest-grossing domestic release of all time.

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The worldwide box for the entire franchise was nearly 3 billion. It deals with the year she was six and her father was deployed to Viet Nam. It has been sold into 12 territories in 11 languages. It has been sold into 4 foreign territories. Her books have sold over million copies worldwide.