Name Rosemary Harris Role Author | Period 1956–? | |
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Nominations Agatha Award for Best First Novel, Anthony Award for Best First Novel Books Pushing Up Daisies: A Dirty Bu, The Moon in the Cloud, The Bright and Morning, The Haunting of Joey M'B, Prejudice and tolerance | ||
Notable awards Carnegie Medal1968 | ||
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Rosemary Jeanne Harris (born 20 February 1923) is a British author of children's fiction. She won the 1968 Carnegie Medal for British children's books.
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.
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. 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.