Susan Price

This article is about the children's author. For other people, see Susan Price (disambiguation).

Susan Price
Born8 July 1955 (1955-07-08) (age 69)
Dudley, England
OccupationAuthor of children's and young adult novels
NationalityEnglish
Notable works

Susan Price (born 8 July 1955) is an English author of children's and young adult novels. She has won both the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Prize for British children's books.[1][2]

Price was born in Dudley, Worcestershire (now West Midlands) in what is known as the Black Country.[3] The region had a major effect on her writing which is "grounded in its history and geology, the limestone and iron ore and coal and fireclay of a landscape that spawned the industrial revolution".[4] From a working class family, she left school without qualifications, and stacked supermarket shelves and washed up in hotel kitchens while writing her first books.[5]

She has written over 60 books, and also worked as a Royal Literary Fund fellow attached to De Montford University.[6]

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  3. ^ "Susan Price". Oxford Reference. Archived from the original on 15 May 2021. Retrieved 26 November 2020.
  4. ^ "Authorgraph No.89: Susan Price – Books For Keeps". booksforkeeps.co.uk. Retrieved 4 February 2024.
  5. ^ Bannerman, Lucy (4 February 2024). "Ghost Drum by Susan Price review — a rediscovered gem of a fairytale". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 4 February 2024.
  6. ^ "Susan Price". The Royal Literary Fund. Retrieved 5 February 2024.