Susan Cooperauthor profile |
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| born | May 23, 1935 |
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| gender | female |
| place of birth | Burnham, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom |
| website | http://www.thelostland.com/ |
| genre | Children's Books, Science Fiction & Fantasy |
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about this author
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. As a child, she loved to read, as did her younger brother, who also became a writer. Cooper also loved newspapers, and when she was ten she collaborated on a weekly newspaper with the son of her piano teacher; that same year she wrote three plays for a puppet theater and a small book, which she also illustrated. 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. Cooper wrote her first book for young readers in re...more |
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books by Susan Coopercombine editionsavg rating: 4.06 | 9443 ratings | 38 distinct works see all books by Susan Cooper » |
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quotes by Susan Cooper
"For ever and ever, we say when we are young, or in our prayers. Twice, we say it. Old One, do we not? For ever and ever ... so that a thing may be for ever, a life or a love or a quest, and yet begin again, and be for ever just as before. And any ending that may seem to come is not truly an ending, but an illusion. For Time does not die, Time has neither beginning nor end, and so nothing can end or die that has once had a place in Time."
— Susan Cooper (Silver On The Tree (Dark is Rising, Book 5))
— Susan Cooper (Silver On The Tree (Dark is Rising, Book 5))
"The future cannot blame the present, just as the present cannot blame the past. The hope is always here, always alive, but only your fierce caring can fan it into a fire to warm the world."
— Susan Cooper (Silver On The Tree (Dark is Rising, Book 5))
— Susan Cooper (Silver On The Tree (Dark is Rising, Book 5))












