About Suzanne Collins
Since 1991, Suzanne Collins has been busy writing for children’s television. She has worked on the staffs of several Nickelodeon shows. Most recently she was the Head Writer for Scholastic Entertainment’s
Clifford’s Puppy Days.While working on a Kids WB show called
Generation O! she met children’s author James Proimos, who talked her into giving children’s books a try.
Thinking one day about
Alice in Wonderland, she was struck by how pastoral the setting must seem to kids who, like her own, lived in urban surroundings. In New York City, you’re much more likely to fall down a manhole than a rabbit hole and, if you do, you’re not going to find a tea party. What you might find...? Well, that’s the story of
Gregor the Overlander, the first book in her five-part fantasy/war series,
The Underland Chronicles.She currently lives in Connecticut with her family and a pair of feral kittens they adopted from their backyard.
About Paul Boehmer
Paul Boehmer appeared in the acclaimed Broadway production of Oscar Wilde’s
An Ideal Husband and on television in
Frasier, Judging Amy, Guiding Light, and
All My Children. His excellent narrations include both BOT and Listening Library titles, such as
Guernsey Literary Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows,
Ape House by Sara Gruen, Suzanne Collins’
McGregor series, and Michael Scott’s
The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel six-book series.