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Susan Cooper
Susan Mary Cooper (born 23 May1935) is an English-born American author of children’s books. She is best known for The Dark Is Rising, a five-volume contemporary fantasy series set in England and Wales.
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[edit]The Dark Is Rising (1965-1977)
[edit]Over Sea, Under Stone (1965)
[edit]- All page numbers from the paperback edition published by Scholastic Books
- “But why Latin?” demanded Barney.
“I don’t know, the monks just always used it, that’s all, it was one of their things. I suppose it’s a religious-sounding kind of language.”
- “You have heard me talk of Logres. It was the old name for this country, thousands of years ago; in the old days when the struggle between good and evil was more bitter and open than it is now. That struggle goes on all round us all the time, like two armies fighting. And sometimes one of them seems to be winning and sometimes the other, but neither has ever triumphed altogether. Nor ever will,” he added softly to himself, “for there is something of each in every man.”
- All knowledge is sacred, but it should not be secret.
The Dark Is Rising (1973)
[edit]- All page numbers from the paperback edition published by Scholastic Books
- Nothing is what it seems, boy. Expect nothing and fear not
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Susan Cooper facts for kids
Susan Mary Cooper (born 23 May 1935) is an English author of children's books. She is best known for The Dark Is Rising, a contemporary fantasy series set in England and Wales, which incorporates British mythology such as the Arthurian legends and Welsh folk heroes. For that work, in 2012 she won the lifetime Margaret A. Edwards Award from the American Library Association, recognizing her contribution to writing for teens. In the 1970s two of the five novels were named the year's best English-language book with an "authentic Welsh background" by the Welsh Books Council. In 2024, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association named her the 40th Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master in recognition of her significant contributions to the literature of science fiction and fantasy.
Biography
Cooper was born in 1935 in Burnham, Buckinghamshire, to Ethel May (née Field) and her husband John Richard Cooper. Her father had worked in the reading room of the Natural History Museum until going off to fight in the Second World War, from which he returned with a wounded leg. He then pursued a career in the offices of the Great Western Railway. Her mother was a teacher of ten-year-olds and eventually became deputy head of a large school. Her younger b