Rosemary Sutcliff

Born in Surrey, Sutcliff left school at fourteen to take up painting. She began to suffer from arthritis, which caused her to be confined to a wheelchair for most of her adult life.

Her career as a writer began in 1950. In 1959, she won the Carnegie Medal for The Lantern Bearers. She became one of the UK's top children's writers, a status she did not relinquish until her death, but she also wrote for adults.

Books

• The Silver Branch
• The Eagle of the Ninth[?]
• Outcast
• Warrior Scarlet[?]
• Knight's Fee
• The Queen Elizabeth Story
• Simon
• The Mark of the Horse Lord

• Blood and Sand (for adults)