Susan Cooper

Catherine Butler (Cardiff University)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.09: English Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary Britain , 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Gina Lyle (University of York), Graham MacPhee (University of Manchester), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Jenni Ramone (The Nottingham Trent University)

Dates

Born 23 May 1935
Activity 1964-ongoing

Places

Born in England
Active in England; United States; Bahamas; Canada

Activities

Primary

Children's/Young Adult writer
Novelist
Playwright / Dramatist

Other

Biographer
Essayist
Film/TV Script-writer/ Screenwriter
Journalist
Poet

Resources

Cooper's Works

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Susan Cooper is a versatile writer of novels, screenplays and poetry. Her most celebrated work has been for children, in particular the five-book fantasy sequence

The Dark Is Rising

(1965-77), but she has written successfully in a wide variety of genres. Her work for adults includes a futuristic thriller, a literary biography, essays, lectures, and a substantial amount of journalism; while for children she has written picture books, chapter books, a semi-autobiographical novel, and four young adult fantasies, apart from the

Dark Is Rising

sequence itself. A Briton who has lived in the United States almost all her adult life, she is acknowledged on both sides of the Atlantic as a major fantasy writer.

Susan Cooper was born in Burnham, Buckinghamshire on 23 May, 1935, the first child of John

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Citation: Butler, Catherine . "Susan Cooper". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 23 February 2006 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=11698, accessed 22 November 2024.]