Billy Collins Accomplishments

Collins’s childhood and early years greatly affected her life as an author. As a child, Collins loved reading suspenseful books which she carried on in her life as an author. For example, one of her suspenseful books, The Hunger Games. While living in Brussels, Belgium as a teen, Collins was able to see plenty of old castles and old war zones which could have influenced her to write about old historic sites in her books such as The Hunger Games. Due to her father’s job, she moved around a lot. Even though this might have been tough for her, this gave her a lot of settings for her to choose from in her books. Collins’s father was an Air Force Officer, which could have given her the idea to write about war and violence in her books , such as The …show more content…
During an interview she was asked “What was the hardest part of writing The Hunger Games?” (Margolis) She replied, “When you are going to write a story like The Hunger Games, you have to accept from the beginning that you are going to kill characters. It is a horrible thing to write, particularly when you have to take out a character that is vulnerable or young or someone you have grown to love when you are writing them.” (Margolis). This could be why Collins incorporates so many characters into The Hunger Games. The Hunger Games has now spent six straight years on the New York Times bestseller list, this could influence Collins to want to write more books because she knows she has the fanbase that she needs. Collins also helped direct The Hunger Games movie which gained $700 million at the worldwide office. Because of the prosperity of the movie, Collins might be more likely to make movies for her other books. In all, Collins’s has sold over 87 million copies of her books which could leverage her to write more because of her accomplishments while writing. As an author Collins and her success have influenced her to write more successful