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Suzanne Collins smiles while posing at the world premiere of The Hunger Games, wearing a black patterned dress and black sweater, with people and cameras in the background.
Suzanne Collins, 2012 American author Suzanne Collins created the wildly popular young adult series The Hunger Games.

Suzanne Collins

American author and screenwriter
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Suzanne Collins (born August 10, 1962, Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.) is an American author and screenwriter, best known for the immensely popular Hunger Games series of young adult novels. Collins was the youngest of four children. Because her father was a career officer in the U.S. Air Force, the family moved frequently, and she spent time in Indiana and Belgium before graduating from high school in Birmingham, Alabama. After studying theater and telecommunications at Indiana University...

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