The 2010 TIME 100 Poll

Cast your votes for the leaders, artists, innovators and icons who you think are the most influential people in the world. Though official voting for inclusion on the TIME 100 list has now closed, with Mir-Hossein Mousavi having won the honor, users can continue to vote for their favorites until the list is revealed on Thursday, April 29th

Suzanne Collins

Suzanne Collins

courtesy of Scholastic

Age: 47
Occupation: Writer
Previous TIME 100 Appearances: 0

Move over, Stephenie Meyer. Collins' Hunger Games series, about a future dystopia in which teenagers compete in an annual gladiatorial fight to the death, is the new de rigueur reading for young adults. What her books lack in sexy vampires they make up for in raw power, and a movie of the first one is in the works.

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