Rosemary Sutcliff

Rosemary Sutcliff was born in 1920 in East Clandon, Surrey, England, and spent her childhood in Malta and at naval bases where her father, a Royal Navy officer, was stationed. When she was very young she developed Still's disease, a form of arthritis, and she used a wheelchair for most of her life. Because of her illness she spent much of her time with her mother, who told her many Celtic and Saxon legends. She did not learn to read until she was nine. At fourteen she entered the Bideford Art School, and she then worked as a painter of miniatures. Inspired by the historical novels of Geoffrey Trease, she began writing for children; her first book, The Chronicles of Robin Hood, appeared in 1950. The Eagle of the Ninth (1954), about a young Roman officer who travels beyond Hadrian's Wall to recover the lost standard of his father's legion, began a series about Roman Britain and after, linked by a family's emerald ring. The Lantern Bearers won the Carnegie Medal in 1959. She also retold the Iliad in Black Ships Before Troy. She died in 1992.

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