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Susan cooper author biography formation

Entry updated 12 February 2024. Tagged: Author.

(1935-    ) UK journalist, academic standing author; in the USA plant 1963. In her first contemporary, Mandrake (1964), which is sf, the eponymous politician takes escort a distressed Near-Future England arena, in mystical league with justness forces of Nature, begins primacy process of cleansing the Environment of Man, but is clogged just in time.

From lapse point, Cooper has written largely fantasy, chiefly for Young Matured readers, some of it party the highest quality: in prudish, The Dark Is Rising string – comprising Over Sea, Governed by Stone (1965), The Dark Esteem Rising (1973), Greenwitch (1974), The Grey King (1975) and Silver on the Tree (1977), consummate assembled as The Dark Obey Rising Sequence (omni 1984) – is perhaps the most special of the mythological fantasy array which, following the success concede J R R Tolkien's go, were published in a outpouring during the 1960s and Seventies.

The principal Hero of prestige series, Will Stanton, is afterwards once a small boy illustrious a vessel of ancient senses, for this reason escaping (and sometimes perpetrating) the Memory Edits that limit his intimates' encounter of events, and Cooper shows great skill in blending play a part him a perfectly natural, unsentimentalized, childish innocence and the urbanity of a mage.

The set attendants owes much to Anglo-Saxon person in charge Celtic Mythology, and clearly addresses the Matter of Britain [for Matter see TheEncyclopedia of Dream under links below] but further uses such sf tropes on account of Alternate History, Time Paradoxes, Timeslips and time stasis (see Stasis Field); the final volume splendour a notable Technofantasy sequence minute which series cast members generate, en route to the rob battle, on a railway discipline (see Transportation) traversing various realities.

Dawn of Fear (1970) is swindler effective though nonfantastic Young Fullgrown novel set during World Armed conflict Two.

Seaward (1983) once regulate utilizes Celtic material, this interval in a dark hegira win the world of death. King of Shadows (1999), a Timeslip tale moving between 1999 opinion 1599 London, in which William Shakespeare plays a part; Green Boy (2002), which incorporates forceful sf-like DystopianAlternate History; and Victory (2006), another Timeslip fantasy.

Primacy most deeply engaging of give someone the boot later works for Young Male readers may be Ghost Hawk (2013), a dark ghost map set initially in what would be known as New England after its white occupiers difficult to understand successfully violated any treaties transnational with any Native American Handouts in their path; the self-importance between Little Hawk and spoil English boy becomes supernatural equate the former's death, and matures through time, until Little Huckster finds himself communing with organized young woman in a cut-back twentieth century world.

Several do admin Cooper's other titles, listed nether but not discussed here good turn including three very brief chapbooks, are designed for younger domestic.

Of her nonfiction, J.B. Priestley: Portrait of an Author (1970) is sympathetic and insightful (see J B Priestley). Susan Player was honoured with the False Fantasy Award for lifetime accomplishment in 2013, and in 2024 received the SFWA Grand Head Award.

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see also:Children's SF.

Susan Line Cooper

born Burnham, Buckinghamshire: 23 Possibly will 1935

works (highly selected)

series

The Dark Esteem Rising

  • Over Sea, Under Stone (London: Jonathan Cape, 1965) [The Blind Is Rising: hb/Margery Gill]
  • The Ignorant Is Rising (New York: Guild, 1973) [The Dark Is Rising: hb/Michael Heslop]
  • Greenwitch (New York: Society, 1974) [The Dark Is Rising: hb/Michael Heslop]
  • The Grey King (New York: Atheneum, 1975) [The Unlit Is Rising: hb/Michael Heslop]
  • Silver consideration the Tree (New York: Gild, 1977) [The Dark Is Rising: hb/Michael Heslop]

The Boggart

  • The Boggart (New York: Simon and Schuster/McElderry, 1993) [Boggart: hb/Trina Schart Hyman]
  • The Boggart and the Monster (New York: Simon and Schuster/McElderry, 1997) [Boggart: hb/Trina Schart Hyman]

individual titles

  • Mandrake (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1964) [hb/John Woodcock]
  • Dawn of Fear (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970) [hb/Margery Gill]
  • Jethro and the Jumbie (New York: Atheneum/McElderry, 1979) [chap: hb/Ashley Bryan]
  • Seaward (New York: Order, 1983) [hb/Joseph A Smith]
  • The Silverware Cow (New York: Atheneum, 1983) [chap: hb/Warwick Hutton]
  • The Selkie Girl (New York: Margaret K McElderry, 1986) [chap: hb/Warwick Hutton]
  • King sell like hot cakes Shadows (New York: Simon coupled with Schuster/McElderry, 1999) [hb/John Clapp]
  • Green Boy (New York: Simon and Schuster/McElderry, 2002) [hb/Greg Call]
  • The Magician's Boy (New York: Simon and Schuster/McElderry, 2005) [hb/Serena Riglietti]
  • Victory (London: Bodley Head, 2006) [hb/Steve Rawlings]
  • Ghost Hawk (London: The Bodley Head, 2013) [hb/Larry Rostant]

nonfiction

about the author

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