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- Selected works
- References
- External links
{{distinguish|text=the British anthropologist, author of The political organization of the Mbembe, Nigeria (at WorldCat) }}{{distinguish|text=the American master gardener and mystery novelist Rosemary Simari Harris, author of Pushing up daisies}}{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2015}}{{Use British English|date=November 2015}}{{BLP sources|date=September 2015}}{{Infobox writer | name = Rosemary Harris | image = | caption = | birth_name = Rosemary Jeanne Harris | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1923|2|20}} | birth_place = London, England, UK | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Writer | language = English | period = 1956–? | genre = Children's fiction, romance novels, suspense novels | notableworks = The Moon in the Cloud (Egypt trilogy) | spouse = | partner = | children = | influences = | influenced = | awards = {{awd |Carnegie Medal |1968}} }}Rosemary Jeanne Harris (born 20 February 1923[1]) 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. Selected works {{Col-begin}}{{Col-break}}- Egypt series
- The Moon in the Cloud (Faber, 1968)
- The Shadow on the Sun (Faber, 1970)
- The Bright and Morning Star (Faber, 1972)
- Other
- The Summer-house (Hamish Hamilton, 1956)
- Venus with Sparrows (Faber, 1961)
- All My Enemies (Faber, 1967)
- The Nice Girl's Story (Faber, 1968); U.S. title, Nor Evil Dreams
- A Wicked Pack of Cards (Faber, 1969)
- Sea Magic and Other Stories of Enchantment (1974)
- Flying Ship (1975)
- Little Dog of Fo, illus. Errol Le Cain (1976)
- I Want to Be a Fish (1977)
- A Quest for Orion (1978)
- Beauty and the Beast, illus. Errol Le Cain (1979)
- Tower of the Stars (1980)
- Zed (1982)
- Janni's Stork (1984)
- The Lotus and the Grail: Legends from East to West (1985)
- Summers of the Wild Rose (1987)
- Love and the Merrygoround (1988)
- Ticket to Freedom (1992)
- Haunting of Joey Mbasa (1996)
{{col-end}}References1. ^{{cite book|last1=Hile|first1=Kevin|title=Something about the Author - Volume 82|date=21 July 1995|publisher=Gale|isbn=0810322927|page=85}}
. Living Archive: Celebrating the Carnegie and Greenaway Winners. CILIP. Retrieved 2012-08-16.
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- Review of A Quest for Orion by Rosemary Harris
- {{LCAuth|n79056194|Rosemary Harris|33|ue}}
{{Authority control}} WARNING: WorldCat conflates three distinct authors named Rosemary Harris; GND conflates two. See the article header. (2013) {{DEFAULTSORT:Harris, Rosemary Jeanne}} 6 : Alumni of the Courtauld Institute of Art|British children's writers|British fantasy writers|Carnegie Medal in Literature winners|1923 births|Living people |