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Susan Cooper is one of our most distinguished children's book authors. The Grey King, part of her five-book sequence, The Dark Is Rising, won the Newbery Medal. The Dark Is Rising, the first book in the sequence, was the only Newbery Honor Book of its publication year. Two other books in the sequence were runners-up for Britain's Carnegie Medal.
Susan Cooper was born on 23 May 1935 in Burnham, Buckinghamshire, England, UK. She is a writer, known for The Dollmaker (1984), The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising (2007) and Foxfire (1987). She was previously married to Hume Cronyn and Nicholas J. Grant.
Mar 21, 2024 · Susan Cooper in september 2013. Susan Mary Cooper (born 23 May 1935) 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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Dec 16, 2023 · SUSAN COOPER: (Reading) So the shortest day came, and the year died. And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world came people singing, dancing to drive the dark away. SCOTT SIMON, HOST:
Jan 1, 2012 · The British-born writer Susan Cooper started her career doing legwork for Ian Fleming at The London Times in the 1950s and writing books on the side. Only when she came stateside with her first ...
The Dark Is Rising. Susan Cooper. Aladdin Paperbacks, May 31, 2005 - Juvenile Fiction - 232 pages. On the Midwinter Day that is his eleventh birthday, Will Stanton discovers a special gift -- that he is the last of the Old Ones, immortals dedicated to keeping the world from domination by the forces of evil, the Dark.
