Susan Cooper
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Susan Mary Cooper is an English author of children's books. She 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. For that work, in 2012 she won the lifetime Margaret A.
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The mindless ferocity of this man, and all those like him, their real loathing born of nothing more solid than insecurity and fear...It was a channel.
Chapter 4 “Midsummer Day” (p. 54)
That one is so sharp he will cut himself.
Chapter 7 “Afanc” (p. 98)
All life is theatre,” he said. “We are all actors, you and I, in a play which nobody wrote and which nobody will see. We have no audience but ourselves....” He laughed gently.
Chapter 9 “The City” (p. 139)
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Gene WolfeAlso won World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement
Anne McCaffreyAlso won Margaret Edwards Award
Paula FoxAlso won Newbery Medal
Hal ClementAlso won Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award
Peter S. BeagleAlso won Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award
Laurie Halse AndersonAlso won Margaret Edwards AwardAbout this person
Susan Mary Cooper is an English author of children's books. She 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. For that work, in 2012 she won the lifetime Margaret A. Edwards Award from the American Library Association, recognizing her contribution to writing for teens. In the 1970s two of the five novels were named the year's best English-language book with an "authentic Welsh background" by the Welsh Books Council. In 2024, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association named her the 40th Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master in recognition of her significant contributions to the literature of science fiction and fantasy.
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