- Began collaborating on plays and teleplays with Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy in the 1980s. Tandy died in 1994, and Cooper married Cronyn in 1996.
- Her children are Jonathan (b. 1966) and Katharine (b. 1967); her stepchildren are Anne, Bill and Peter.
- After graduating with an M.A. in English from Oxford University, she wrote for London's Sunday Times, where Ian Fleming was her boss.
- Award-winning author of the fantasy series "The Dark is Rising," set in Cornwall and Wales and dealing with Arthurian legend.
- Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, vol. 137, pages 88-96. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.
- "Over Sea, Under Stone" and "The Dark is Rising" were ALA Notable Books. "The Dark is Rising" won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Excellence in Children's Literature, and was runner-up for the Newbery Medal and the Carnegie Medal. "The Grey King" won the Newbery Medal as best children's book of the year.
- She became a full-time writer in 1963.
- Cooper was a reporter and feature writer for the Sunday London Times from 1956 to 1963.
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