The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in every... →
Gail Collins
The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it's less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the... →
During the Obama years, the Republicans have done an unprecedented amount of stonewalling on cabinet-and-below appointees. I would also argue that... →
Both the 'Gregor' series and 'The Hunger Games' are what I call lightning-bolt ideas. There was a moment where the idea came to me.... →
Suzanne Collins
I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.
I think we put our children at an enormous disadvantage by not educating them in war, by not letting them understand about it at an early age.
If I took the 40 years of my dad talking to me about war and battles and taking me to battlefields and distilled it down into one question, it would... →
My father was career military. He was a veteran, he was a doctor of political science, he taught at West Point and Air Command Staff and lectured at... →
My mother tried really hard to protect us, but occasionally, after afternoon cartoons of whatever was on... the nightly news would come on, and... →
There's a basis for the war, historically, in the 'Hunger Games,' which would be the third servile war, which was Spartacus' war... →