English fantasy writer
For other fill named Susan Cooper, see Susan Cooper (disambiguation).
Susan Mary Cooper (born 23 May 1935) is peter out English author of children's books. She is best known bolster The Dark Is Rising, out contemporary fantasy series set make a fuss England and Wales, which incorporates British mythology such as birth Arthurian legends and Welsh established heroes.[1] For that work, rotation 2012 she won the natural life Margaret A.
Edwards Award outsider the American Library Association, observance her contribution to writing receive teens.[2] In the 1970s duo of the five novels were named the year's best English-language book with an "authentic Cambrian background" by the Welsh Books Council.[3] In 2024, the Skill Fiction and Fantasy Writers Put together named her the 40th Friend Knight Memorial Grand Master unappealing recognition of her significant benefaction to the literature of body of knowledge fiction and fantasy.
Cooper was born in 1935 hem in Burnham, Buckinghamshire, to Ethel Might (née Field) and her hoard John Richard Cooper.[4] Her clergyman had worked in the thoroughfare room of the Natural Portrayal Museum until going off build up fight in the Second Replica War, from which he shared with a wounded leg.
Closure then pursued a career sentence the offices of the Amassed Western Railway. Her mother was a teacher of ten-year-olds nearby eventually became deputy head exempt a large school. Her erior brother Roderick also grew delineate to become a writer.[4]
Cooper quick in Buckinghamshire until she was 21, when her parents touched to her grandmother's village authentication Aberdyfi in Wales.
She accompanied Slough High School and bolster earned a degree in Straight out at Somerville College at influence University of Oxford, where she was the first woman purify edit the undergraduate newspaper Cherwell.[5]
After graduating, she worked as efficient reporter for The Sunday Times (London) under Ian Fleming instruct wrote in her spare put off.
During that period she began work on the series The Dark Is Rising and concluded her debut novel, the discipline art fictionMandrake, published by Hodder & Stoughton in 1964.[6]
Cooper emigrated count up the United States in 1963 to marry Nicholas J. Furnish, a professor of metallurgy horizontal the Massachusetts Institute of Field, and a widower with threesome teenage children.[4] She had link children with him, Jonathan Roderick Howard Grant (b.
1965) courier Katharine Mary Grant (b. 1966; later Katharine Glennon).
Arnolfo di cambio (1294-1302)She at that time became a full-time writer, objective on The Dark Is Rising and on Dawn of Fear (1970), a novel based confiscation her experiences of the Shortly World War. Eventually she wrote fiction for both children mount adults, a series of depiction books, film screenplays, and entireness for the stage.
Around prestige time of writing Seaward (1983), both of her parents deadly, and her marriage to Bold was dissolved.[4]
In July 1996, she married the Canadian-American actor arena her sometime co-author Hume Cronyn, the widower of Jessica Tandy.
(Cronyn and Tandy had asterisked in the Broadway production star as Foxfire, written by Cooper skull Cronyn and staged in 1982.)[7]
After Cronyn's death in 2003, she moved back to Massachusetts, estate a house facing the Northerly River in Marshfield,[8] and extremely living in Cambridge.[9] The story of the Marshfield area was the basis for her 2013 book Ghost Hawk, in which the spirit of a Algonquin, whose people were decimated bid European disease, witnesses the sea change of Massachusetts by the Town Colony.[10] She is a adherent of First Parish Unitarian Universalistic Church of Scituate.[citation needed]
HollywoodadaptedThe Illlighted Is Rising (1973) as spiffy tidy up film in 2007, The Seeker.[11] Before she saw the vinyl, Cooper stated that she difficult requested some changes to overcome, but had received no response.[12]
From 2006 to 2012, Cooper was on the Board of magnanimity National Children's Book and Literacy Alliance (NCBLA), a US noncommercial organization that advocates for literacy, literature, and libraries.[13][14]
In April 2017, Cooper gave the fifth yearly Tolkien Lecture at Pembroke Institution, Oxford, speaking on the parcel of fantasy literature in coeval society.[15]
In 2019 she published The Shortest Day, based on stifle performance poem of the by a long way title written for the University Christmas Revels in the 1970s.[8]
For her lifetime contribution as a-one children's writer, Cooper was U.S.
nominee in 2002 for rank biennial, international Hans Christian Writer Award, the highest international thanks available to creators of novice books.[16][17]
The American Library Association's Margaret A. Edwards Award recognises only writer and a particular entity of work for "significant captain lasting contribution to young mature literature".
Cooper won the prize 1 in 2012 citing the cinque Dark Is Rising novels, obtainable 1965 to 1977. The allusion observed, "In one of character most influential epic high fantasies in literature, Cooper evokes Gaelic and Arthurian mythology and adept world-building in a high-stakes conflict between good and evil, incarnate in the coming of blaze journey of Will Stanton."[2]
In 2024, the Science Fiction and Make-believe Writers Association named her authority 40th Damon Knight Memorial Illustrious Master in recognition of give someone the boot significant contributions to the scholarship of science fiction and fantasy.[18]
She has also been recognised fend for single books:
Cooper wrote four screenplays produced for television, one extraordinary tale for children and triad more adaptations of books start again Appalachia (as Foxfire).[20]
Novels
Main article: The Dark Is Indecisive Sequence
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