Susan Mary Cooper was born on 23 May 1935 and is an English author of children's books.
11 Facts About Susan Cooper
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Susan Cooper 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.
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Susan Cooper's 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.
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Susan Cooper then pursued a career in the offices of the Great Western Railway.
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Susan Cooper's mother was a teacher of ten-year-olds and eventually became deputy head of a large school.
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Susan Cooper lived in Buckinghamshire until she was 21, when her parents moved to her grandmother's village of Aberdyfi in Wales.
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Susan Cooper attended Slough High School and then earned a degree in English at Somerville College at the University of Oxford, where she was the first woman to edit the undergraduate newspaper Cherwell with her co-editor Patrick Nobes.
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Susan Cooper then became a full-time writer, focusing on The Dark Is Rising and on Dawn of Fear, a novel based on her experiences of the Second World War.
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From 2006 to 2012, Susan Cooper was on the Board of the National Children's Book and Literacy Alliance, a US nonprofit organization that advocates for literacy, literature, and libraries.
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Susan Cooper won the award in 2012 citing the five Dark Is Rising novels, published 1965 to 1977.
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Susan Cooper wrote four screenplays produced for television, one supernatural tale for children and three more adaptations of books about Appalachia.