ABOUT SUSAN MARY COOPER
Became famous for publishing The Dark is Rising, an urban fantasy series of novels that incorporates Arthurian legends with modern-day England and Wales.
She worked as a journalist for The Sunday Times.
She won the 2012 Margaret Edwards Award from the American Library Association.
Her parents were Ethel May Field and Richard Cooper.
She wrote urban fantasy novels set in England, much like famous author J.K. Rowling .