Caroline B. Cooney is an American author

Author

An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...

 of suspense, romance, horror and mystery books for young adults. She currently resides in Fort Mill, South Carolina

Fort Mill, South Carolina

Fort Mill is a fast-growing suburban town in both York and Lancaster counties in the U.S. state of South Carolina, and a suburb of the city of Charlotte, North Carolina, and Rock Hill...

.

Cooney's books have received several honors, including an IRA–CBC Children's Choice and being named an ALA Best Book for Young Adults. Most recently Cooney's Diamonds in the Shadow was named a 2008 ALA/YALSA Quick Pick and was a nominee for the Edgar Allen Poe Awards.

Background

Caroline Cooney was born in 1947 in Geneva, NY and grew up in Old Greenwich, CT. As an avid reader in her youth, she was interested in The Hardy Boys

The Hardy Boys

The Hardy Boys, Frank and Joe Hardy, are fictional teenage brothers and amateur detectives who appear in various mystery series for children and teens....

and Cherry Ames

Cherry Ames

Cherry Ames is the central character in a series of 27 mystery novels with hospital settings published by Grosset & Dunlap between 1943 and 1968. Helen Wells wrote volumes #1-7 and 17-27, and Julie Campbell Tatham , the creator of Trixie Belden, wrote volumes #8-16. Wells also created the Vicki...

series; her interest in Cherry Ames later influenced her decision to attend nursing school in Boston. In college, Cooney became interested in writing. She attended several colleges, but did not obtain a degree, opting to pursue a career as a writer.

Cooney is married and has three children: Louisa, Sayre, and Harold.

Series

Losing Christina

• The Fog (1989)**
• The Snow (1991)**
• The Fire (1992)**

(**The Losing Christina books have since been retitled Fog, Snow, and Fire)

Janie Johnson series

Janie Johnson series

The Jennie Spring/Janie Johnson series is a series of a young adult novels written by Caroline B. Cooney.The series consists of: *The Face on the Milk Carton *Whatever Happened to Janie? *The Voice On The Radio...

• The Face on the Milk Carton
  The Face on the Milk Carton
  The Face on the Milk Carton is a young adult novel by author Caroline B. Cooney, first published in 1990. Part of The Janie Johnson series, it was later adapted into a film for television. It is about a teenaged girl who thinks she was kidnapped as a toddler and tries to find her parents.-See...
  
  (1990)
• Whatever Happened to Janie? (1993)
• The Voice On The Radio (1996)
• What Janie Found (2000)

The Vampire's Broken Promise

• Deadly Offers (1991) (Originally published as The Cheerleader's Assistance)
• Evil is Returning (1992) (Originally published as Return of the Vampire)
• Fatal Bargain (1993) (Originally published as The Vampire's Promise)

Time Travelers Quartet

• Both Sides of Time
  Both Sides of Time
  Both Sides of Time is the first of a series of four young adult time-travel romance books by Caroline B. Cooney. This series is also known as the Time Travelers Quartet.- Plot introduction :...
  
  (1995)
• Out of Time
  Out of Time (Cooney novel)
  Out of Time is the sequel to Caroline B. Cooney's young adult novel Both Sides of Time, and is the second book in the Time Travelers Quartet.- Plot Overview:...
  
  (1996)
• Prisoner of Time
  Prisoner of Time
  Prisoner of Time is the third in a series of time-travel romances written by Caroline B. Cooney.-Plot:Prisoner of Time follows Strat's younger sister, Devonny, as she accidentally slips one hundred years into the future, to Annie Lockwood's time, and begins to fall in love with Annie's younger...
  
  (1998)
• For All Time
  For All Time
  For All Time is the final book in Caroline B. Cooney's time-travel romance series.- Plot summary :Annie Lockwood attends the new Ancient Egypt exhibit in the museum where she hopes to find some clue of Strat's survival. She is thoroughly disappointed to find that Strat is not in the picture of the...
  
  (2001)

External links

• Author profile on Teenreads.com—includes interview with Cooney.
• Author profile from Random House Children's books
• Author interview with Dee Ann Grand
• Bibliography on Fantastic Fiction