Though she had a long, successful career writing for children's television, Suzanne Collins saw her reputation blossom once she shifted her creative focus to young adult novels. Her first project became the New York Times bestselling five-part fantasy/war series, The Underland Chronicles. And of course, her most acclaimed and popular work to date has been The Hunger Games trilogy, which the New York Times noted, "revealed [her] outsize imagination for suffering and brutality." In addition to winning her a slew of awards, the Hunger Games novels have made Mrs. Collins extremely popular among readers, and led her to be named one of Time Magazine's Top 100 people in 2010.
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