Well known largely for her award-winning fantasy series "The Dark is Rising," Susan Mary Cooper has enjoyed great critical success in a variety of genres--newspaper articles, essays, biography, science fiction, drama, screenplays, and children's...

Called "one of the most versatile, popular, and critically acclaimed children's writers of the twentieth century" by Joel D. Chaston in the Dictionary of Literary Biography, Susan Cooper is considered an exceptional author for the young whose...

Although Susan Cooper has lived in the United States since 1963, she considers herself, and is considered by her readers, to be a British writer of fantasy. All of her major fiction resonates with themes, settings, myths, and legends associated with...

Susan Cooper, then 16, was fired from her first job as a model because she tried to organize her colleagues into a union. She later made her living refurbishing antiques and old houses. And she led an active political life, campaigning for her high-school...

Susan McDougal, a former Whitewater partner of Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton who is facing imprisonment in another business deal, said in a television interview to be aired Wednesday that she is considering cooperating with federal prosecutors in their investigation of Whitewater and other...

New Hampshire will soon ban smoking in bars and restaurants, becoming the last state in New England to do so.The House approved a bill Thursday imposing the ban after a similar bill died in the Senate last year. Gov. John Lynch has said he will...

New Hampshire will soon ban smoking in bars and restaurants, becoming the last state in New England to do so.The House approved a bill Thursday imposing the ban after a similar bill died in the Senate last year. Gov. John Lynch has said he will...