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Caroline B. Cooney

Caroline B. Cooney (born 1947) is an author of teenager horror and mistery books. She is a native of Greenwich, Connecticut.

An avid reader, Cooney read many books while she was in elementary school, the three books that mostly impacted her during that era being Sword of The Wilderness[?] by Elizabeth Coalsworth[?], Indian Captive[?], by Lois Lenski[?], and Black River Captive[?] by West Lanthrop[?].

Cooney played the piano, directed a chorus and was a church organ player by the time she was 15. When she was a teenager, she favored reading The Hardy Boys[?], and Cherry Ames[?].

During college, she studied arts, music and English. It was in college that she began to write and considered writing as a career for the first time.

She has written 69 books and earned various important awards for many of them.

Among her books:

In addition, her novels Driver's Ed[?], Among Friends[?], Twenty Pageants Later[?], Both Sides of Time[?] and Out of Times[?] have also garnered her various important awards, including the Ala award[?].



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