Rosemary Sutcliff
Rosemary Sutcliff (England, 1920�1992) wrote over fifty books for young people. Her first two were published in 1950 and her last were published posthumously. She received the following awards: the Carnegie Award for The Lantern Bearers, The Boston Globe�Horn Book Award for Tristan and Iseult, a Hans Christian Andersen Highly Commended Author Award in 1974 for her body of work, an Order of the British Empire in 1975, the Phoenix Award for The Mark of the Horse Lord, and a Commander of the British Empire in the year of her death. Her books have been translated into several languages and have been published throughout the world.�Sutcliff's historical imagination never fails to make her pictures of the past as real as the present.� �New York Herald Tribune�Sutcliff brings extraordinary scholarship to every one of her books � but it is the re-creation of life�her penetration into the human heart no matter how distant the time�that makes each period live and gives continuity to history.� �The Horn Book
