Susan Cooper has been writing for over 30 years. During this time he wrote numerous newspaper articles, books for children and adults, screenplays for TV, film and a Broadway show. As a writer she is difficult 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 before going to Oxford University. At Somerville College he read English. During her time at Oxford she was the first woman to edit the university magazine, Cherwell. After graduating with a degree in English, she began working as a reporter for the Atticus column of London's Sunday Times (her first boss was Ian Fleming). She later became a feature film writer. His first books were born in this period. Written after work and on weekends, his first was a so-called science fiction novel, Mandrake. And in response to a publishing house competition for a children's adventure story, Beyond the Sea, Under the Stone. In 1963 she left England to marry an American, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and went "rather nervously" to live in the United States. . He wrote two further books for adults: a study of America, Behind the Golden Curtain and a biography of JB Priestley, Portrait of an Author. Another novel, the autobiographical Dawn of Fear published in 1970, was written before continuing Dark Is Rising. series. Dawn of Fear is a solitary film that looks at the experience of living in wartime Britain through the eyes of a child. The book is almost totally autobiographical, except for the fact, as the author herself states, "I turned into a boy". However, it is The Dark Is Rising series that is synonymous with the name Susan Cooper. The first in the series, Over Sea, Under Stone, is perhaps more easily identifiable as a family adventure story than the other DR books, but it is much more than that. In Beyond the Sea, Under the Stone we get our first insights into the battle between Darkness and Light and the introduction to the Arthurian and Celtic myths and legends that permeate the entire sequence. After completing Beyond the Sea, Under the Stone, the reader has only gotten a taste of what's to come in the remaining stories. For about a dozen years