Interviews
Explore a collection of interviews offering insight into Suzanne Collins’s creative process, inspirations, and the stories behind her books.
Collins Answers Questions About the Hunger Games
5 Questions with Collins
Sunrise on the Reaping
Scholastic Interview
Prior to the release of Sunrise on the Reaping, Suzanne Collins spoke about the book to David Levithan, SVP, Publisher and Editorial Director at Scholastic, also one of her editors.
Please note: This conversation is best read after you’ve finished the novel, since it does contain spoilers.
Collins on Vietnam War Stories – Behind The Hunger Games and Year of the Jungle
Borders Books Club with Suzanne Collins
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Scholastic Interview
On the eve of the publication of The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, author Suzanne Collins spoke to David Levithan, her publisher and one of her editors, about the making of the book.
Collins Talks to Readers
Collins Speaks on Her Love of Writing and Reading
Hunger Games 10th Anniversary
Scholastic Interview
On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the publication of The Hunger Games, author Suzanne Collins and publisher David Levithan discussed the evolution of the story, the editorial process, and the first ten years of the life of the trilogy, encompassing both books and films.
Underland Chronicles
Scholastic Interview
Suzanne Collins discusses The Underland Chronicles with Jen Rees at Scholastic Press.
Year of the Jungle: War Stories for Young Readers Interview
In 2013, authors Walter Dean Myers and Suzanne Collins came to the Scholastic Auditorium for a conversation about writing war stories for readers of all ages. The following is an edited transcript of this illuminating conversation, which was introduced by Walter Dean Myers’s editor, Andrea Davis Pinkney, and moderated by Suzanne Collins’s publisher, David Levithan.
