Rosemary Harris (writer)

Not to be confused with the British anthropologist, author of The political organization of the Mbembe, Nigeria (at WorldCat) .
Not to be confused with the American master gardener and mystery novelist Rosemary Simari Harris, author of Pushing up daisies.
Rosemary Harris
Born

Rosemary Jeanne Harris
February 1923 (age 93)


London, England, UK

Occupation Writer
Language English
Period 1956–?
Genre Children's fiction, romance novels, suspense novels
Notable works The Moon in the Cloud (Egypt trilogy)
Notable awards Carnegie Medal
1968

Rosemary Jeanne Harris (born 20 February 1923[1]) is a British author of children's fiction. She won the 1968 Carnegie Medal for British children's books.[2]

Harris was born in London. She attended school in Weymouth, and then studied at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, the Chelsea School of Art and the Courtauld Institute. She served in the British Red Cross Nursing Auxiliary Westminster Division during World War II and subsequently worked as a picture restorer and as a reader for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. From 1970 to 1973 she reviewed children's books for The Times.[2]

For The Moon in the Cloud, published by Faber in 1968, Harris won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject.[2] The Moon was the first volume of a trilogy set in ancient Egypt, followed by The Shadow on the Sun (1970) and The Bright and Morning Star (1972). The book was also the basis for a 1978 episode of the BBC series Jackanory.

Others of her books feature themes as diverse as terrorism, magic and futuristic totalitarianism.

Selected works

Egypt series
  • The Moon in the Cloud (Faber, 1968)
  • The Shadow on the Sun (Faber, 1970)
  • The Bright and Morning Star (Faber, 1972)
Other
  • The Summer-house (Hamish Hamilton, 1956)
  • Venus with Sparrows (Faber, 1961)
  • All My Enemies (Faber, 1967)
  • The Nice Girl's Story (Faber, 1968); U.S. title, Nor Evil Dreams
  • A Wicked Pack of Cards (Faber, 1969)
  • The Seal-Singing (Faber, 1971)
  • The Child in the Bamboo Grove (Faber, 1971), illustrated by Errol Le Cain
  • King's White Elephant (1973)
  • The Double-Snare (Faber, 1974)
  • Sea Magic and Other Stories of Enchantment (1974)
  • Flying Ship (1975)
  • Little Dog of Fo, illus. Errol Le Cain (1976)
  • I Want to Be a Fish (1977)
  • A Quest for Orion (1978)
  • Beauty and the Beast, illus. Errol Le Cain (1979)
  • Tower of the Stars (1980)
  • Zed (1982)
  • Janni's Stork (1984)
  • The Lotus and the Grail: Legends from East to West (1985)
  • Summers of the Wild Rose (1987)
  • Love and the Merrygoround (1988)
  • Ticket to Freedom (1992)
  • Haunting of Joey Mbasa (1996)

References

  1. ↑ Hile, Kevin (21 July 1995). Something about the Author - Volume 82. Gale. p. 85. ISBN 0810322927.
  2. 1 2 3 (Carnegie Winner 1968). Living Archive: Celebrating the Carnegie and Greenaway Winners. CILIP. Retrieved 2012-08-16.
WARNING: WorldCat conflates three distinct authors named Rosemary Harris; GND conflates two. See the article header.
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