Suzanne Collins

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Suzanne Marie Collins is a television writer and novelist; she is the author of the “New York Time”, “The Hunger Game” and “The Underland Chronicles”.
Collins was born on August 10th, 1962 in Hartford, Connecticut. Her father was a solider for U.S Air Force, he has been fight in Vietnam War. Because her father is a solider, so when she was young, her and her family moves a lot, she have been in living in places like New York City and Brussels. For her family, learn history was an important subject, most reason is her father was taught the college level and he like share his military experience for them also the memory for Vietnam War.
Suzanne Collins says “maybe his father feel great to share the memory for the kids, he feel great responsibility and urgency for teach his kids about War, he feel need teach kids for Wars history”. He always brings them to the War Memorial or someplace like that, when she was young. She always hears the story about the Wars memory from her father. when one time she can be a great writer in the future, she herself as a talented children's televisio...

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