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Rosemary Sutcliff ( December 14 , 1920 - July 23 , 1992 ) was a British Novelist , best known as a writer of highly acclaimed Historical Fiction . Although primarily a children's author, the quality and depth of her writing also appeals to adults, she herself once commenting that she wrote "for children of all ages from nine to ninety." Born in Surrey , Sutcliff spent her early youth in Malta where her father was stationed as a naval officer. She contracted Still's Disease when she was very young and was confined to a wheelchair for most of her life. Due to her chronic sickness, she spent the majority of her time with her mother, a tireless storyteller, from whom she learned many of the Celtic and Saxon legends that she would later expand into works of historical fiction. Her early schooling being continually interrupted by moving house and her disabling condition, Sutcliff didn't learn to read until she was nine, and left school at fourteen to enter the Bideford Art School, which she attended for three years, graduating from the General Art Course. Rosemary Sutcliff began her career as a writer in 1950 with "The Chronicles of Robin Hood". She "found herself", and expressed herself, when she wrote '' The Eagle Of The Ninth '' in 1954. In 1959 , she won the Carnegie Medal for ''The Lantern Bearers'' and was runner-up in 1972 with "Tristan and Iseult". In 1974 she was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Award . Rosemary lived the majority of her adult life in Arundel, Sussex, and in 1975 was awarded the Order Of The British Empire (OBE) for her contributions to Children's Literature. She wrote incessantly throughout her life, and was still writing on the morning of her death. She never married. Few historical novelists ever have matched the range of Rosemary Sutcliff's critical and popular appeal, but her literary heir, especially for novels set in Roman Britain and the Roman Empire , is possibly the contemporary writer Gillian Bradshaw . BOOKS ''Eagle of the Ninth'' series
Arthurian novels
Other children's novels
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