Suzanne is the youngest of four siblings. She was born on August 10, 1962, in Hartford, Connecticut. Suzanne’s father was in the military. He was in the Air Force. Since they were a military family they had to move around a lot. She moved to places like Brussels and New York City.
All of Suzanne’s were very into history. A lot of this need for history came from Suzanne’s father. He had taught history at a University. He was also very open with his family and his kids about his life in the military. That included his time that he spent in Vietnam.
"I believe he felt a great responsibility and urgency about educating his children about war," Collins says. "He would take us frequently to places like battlefields and war monuments. It would start
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Collins then enrolled at Indiana University, where she graduated in 1985 as a double major in theater and telecommunications. She then went on to earn a master's degree in dramatic writing from New York University.
In 1991, She began her professional career writing for children’s television. She worked on the staffs of several Nickelodeon shows, including Clarissa Explains it All and The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo. She also co-wrote the Christmas special, Santa, Baby! She was the Head Writer for Scholastic Entertainment’s Clifford’s Puppy Days, and a freelancer on Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! While working on a Kids WB show called Generation O! she met children’s author and illustrator James Proimos, who talked her into giving children’s books a try.
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...? Well, that’s the story of Gregor the Overlander, the first book in her five-part fantasy/ war series, The Underland Chronicles,which became a New York Times bestseller. It has been sold into 21 foreign