Collins's career started in 1991 as a author for children's TV programs. She worked on several TV programs for Nickelodeon, including Clarissa Explains It All, The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo, Little Bear, and Oswald. She was also the head author for Scholastic Entertainment's Clifford's Puppy Days. She received a Authors Guild of America nomination in animation for co-writing the critically acclaimed Christmas special, Santa, Baby!.
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After meeting writer of children books James Proimos while working on the Kids' Wb show Generation O!, Collins was inspired to write books for kids 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 created the five works 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 created a rhyming picture book illustrated by Mike Lester entitled When Charlie Mcbutton Lost Power.
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In September 2008 Scholastic Press published the The Hunger Games, the first book of a trilogy by Collins.
Suzanne Collins
