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The play eventually went to Broadway in 1983 and starred Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy, who won a Tony for her performance. She wrote for Jack Langstaff's "Revels." Her first major play was called "Foxfire," which was written in coolaboration with Hume Cronyn. "Silver on the Tree" was the fifth and last book published, completing the series in 1977.Īfter completing the "Dark is Rising" series, Cooper turned to writing for the theater, learning the style from Urjo Kareda at Tarragon Theatres in Toronto. "The Grey King" won the Newberry Medal in 1976. In1974, Cooper published Greenwitch, book three, and book four, "The Grey King" a year later. Even though Cooper wrote "Over Sea, Under Stone" as a entry for a publishing house competittion, she did not know at the time that it would be the first of her most famous copilation, "The Dark is Rising Series." In 1973 she wrote the second in the five book series, entitled "The Dark is Rising," published more than ten years after the first. In 1970, Cooper published "Dawn of Fear" an almost entirely autobiographical book about growing up as a child during the war. Once there, she wrote two more books for adults, "Behind the Golden Gate" a study of America, and "Portrait of an Author" the biography of J. She left England in 1963 to marry an American professor. It would later become the first of a five book series she would become famous for. Soon after the publication of "Mandrake," Cooper wrote the children's story "Over Sea, Under Stone" for a publishing house competition. She evenutally made it to features writer, during which time she wrote her first book, "Mandrake," a science fiction story for adults.

She graduated from Oxford with an MA in English and went to work for London's The Sunday Times as a reporter on the Atticus Column for Ian Flemming. She was the first woman to ever edit the University Magazine, the Cherwell. She attended Slough Grammar School, and then went on to Somerville College and Oxford. Susan Cooper was born in Buckinghamshire, England in May of 1935. In the Welsh hills Will Stanton, youngest of the immortal Old Ones, joins forces with Merriman, Bran, and the mortal Drew children in a quest through space and time against the powers of evil known as the Dark.