[act-ma] Susan Cooper Cambridge Forum Nov 15

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>UNRIDDLING THE WORLD: The Role of Fantasy in Children’s Literature and Lives
>7:30 p.m., THURSDAY, November 15, 2007
>Cambridge Forum
>3 Church Street
>Cambridge, MA 02138
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>Free and Open to the Public
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>Press Release
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>Author Susan Cooper explores the way that literary fantasy helps children understand the world.  Musical introduction by The Revels’s Tony Barrand---singer, dancer, scholar---and George Emlen, The Revels’ music director.
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>Susan Cooper, born in England and educated at Oxford, where she attended lectures by J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis and was first woman to edit the Oxford University newspaper.  She began work as a professional writer for London’s Sunday Times.  Since then, she has written books for children and adults, plays, screenplay, and poetry.  Of her more than twenty books, perhaps the best known are those is the Dark Is Rising series.  In 1976, The Grey King, the fourth book in the series, won the Newbury Medal.  Her other awards include two Carnegie Honor Awards, and a Boston Globe Horn Book Honor Award.  She has written The Boggart; King of Shadows; The Silver Cow: A Welsh Tale and, most recently the novel Victory.  Susan Cooper moved to the U.S. in 1963 and is a former resident of Cambridge.  She has written songs, plays, and poetry for the Revels since 1975.  Her poem “The Shortest Day” is an integral part of each Christmas Revels.  She now lives by the sea in Massachusetts. 
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Phone/fax:  617-495-2727
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website:  http://www.cambridgeforum.org

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