Summary: The Hunger Games is based on a best –selling book trilogy. Gerry Northam profiles its author, Suzanne Collins. Her trilogy, set in post-apocalypse America, is said to have been inspired by a combination of Greek myth and reality television as well as Collins’ own upbringing as the daughter of an air-force officer who served in Vietnam. So how much do we know about the woman behind the phenomenon now being described as the US equivalent of Harry Potter?
