Recent books include the collaborative project "The Exquisite Corpse Adventure" and her biography of Jack Langstaff titled "The Magic Maker." Her newest book is "Ghost Hawk." When Cooper is not working, she enjoys playing piano, gardening, and traveling. She has also written books for adults, as well as plays and Emmy-nominated screenplays, many in collaboration with the actor Hume Cronyn, whom she married in 1996. By that time, Susan Cooper had been living in America for 13 years, having moved to marry her first husband, an American professor, and was stepmother to three children and the mother of two.Ĭooper went on to write other well-received novels, including "The Boggart" (and its sequel "The Boggart and the Monster"), "King of Shadows", and "Victory," as well as several picture books for young readers with illustrators such as Ashley Bryan and Warwick Hutton. After attending Oxford, where she became the first woman to ever edit that university's newspaper, Cooper worked as a reporter and feature writer for London's Sunday Times her first boss was James Bond creator Ian Fleming.Ĭooper wrote her first book for young readers in response to a publishing house competition "Over Sea, Under Stone" would later form the basis for her critically acclaimed five-book fantasy sequence, "The Dark Is Rising." The fourth book in the series, "The Grey King," won the Newbery Medal in 1976. As a child, she loved to read, as did her younger brother, who also became a writer. Susan Cooper was born in 1935, and grew up in England's Buckinghamshire, an area that was green countryside then but has since become part of Greater London. This complete collection includes Over Sea, Under Stone The Dark Is Rising Greenwitch The Grey King and Silver on the Tree.Susan Cooper's latest book is the YA novel "Ghost Hawk" (2013) One of the most celebrated fantasy sequences of all time, The Dark Is Rising is a searing, epic rendering of the eternal conflict between good and evil. These six fight fear and death in a quest through time and space interwoven with the most ancient myths of the islands of Britain-until, at last, Will and Bran find the weapon that will ultimately vanquish the Dark. Soon Will is swept up in the great battle, along with his ageless master, Merriman the three Drew children, who are mortal but have their own vital part to play and a strange boy named Bran. He finds that he is no ordinary boy, but the last-born of the Old Ones, immortals dedicated to keeping mankind free from the Dark. Will Stanton’s ordinary life is shattered with the dreadful revelation that the Dark-the source of all evil-is rising in its last and greatest bid to control the world. The complete Dark Is Rising Sequence is now available as one keepsake collection.
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