Susan Mary Cooper (born 23 May 1935) is an English author of children's books. She is best known for The Dark Is Rising. In 2012 she won the lifetime Margaret A. Edwards Award from the American Library Association.
References
More reading
Four British Fantasists: Place and Culture in the Children's Fantasies of Penelope Lively, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, and Susan Cooper, Charles Butler (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006) The Wand in the Word: Conversations with Writers of Fantasy, Leonard Marcus (Candlewick, 2006)
Other websites
– official website with links to articles and interviews available online, at "About Writing for Children" The NCBLA Board of Directors: Susan Cooper