Susan Cooper

Susan Cooper has been writing for over 30 years. In this condemnation she has written numerous newspaper articles, books for children and adults, screenplays for TV, the cinema and a Broadway play. As a writer she is hard to classify, what is universally accepted is that she is a writer with extraordinary gifts. Born in Burnham, Buckinghamshire, England in may 1935, Susan Cooper attended Slough High School onward going up to Oxford University. At Somerville College she read English. During her time at Oxford she was the low woman ever to edit the University magazine, Cherwell. After graduating with an MA in English, she began work as a reporter on the Atticus Column of Londons The Sunday Times (her first boss was Ian Fleming). She later became a feature writer. Her first books were innate(p) during this period. Written after work and at weekends, her first was a so-called science fiction novel, Mandrake. And in response to a publishing house competition for a childrens adventure story, everyplace Sea, Under Stone. In 1963 she left England to marry an American, a prof at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and went rather nervously to work in the USA. She wrote two more books for adults: a study of America, quarter the Golden Curtain and a biography of J.B. Priestley, Portrait of An Author.

A further novel, the autobiographical forenoon of Fear published in 1970, was written before continuing the Dark Is procession series. Dawn of Fear is a solitary, looking at the experience of subsisting in war-time Britain through the eyes of a child. The book is more or less totally autobiographical except for the fact, as the author herself states, I turned myself into a boy. It is, however The Dark Is Rising series which is synonymous with the name Susan Cooper. The first in the series, all over Sea, Under Stone, is perhaps more readily identified as a family adventure story than the other DR books - but it is very much more than that. In Over Sea, Under Stone we render the first... If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com

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