“It's old, very old I think. Made up long ago in our hills. What my music teacher calls a mountain air. But the words are easy and soothing, promising tomorrow will be more hopeful than this awful piece of time we call today.”

American author and television writer

Suzanne Collins is an American author and television writer. She is best known for writing the young adult dystopian series The Hunger Games. She also wrote The Underland Chronicles, a children’s fantasy series. Her work is closely associated with fiction for younger readers, especially stories set in imagined worlds shaped by conflict, survival, and power.