Caroline B. Cooney

Caroline B. Cooney (born May 10, 1947) is an American author of suspense, romance, horror, and mystery books for young adults.

Cooney was born in Greenwich, Connecticut. She currently resides in Fort Mill, South Carolina.

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^[2] and was a nominee for the Edgar Allan Poe Award.^[3]

Early life and education

Cooney was born in 1947 in Geneva, NY and grew up in Old Greenwich, CT. She failed out of college. She went to Indiana University from 1965 to 1966, then went to Massachusetts General Hospital School of Nursing from 1966 to 1967. Shent to the University of Connecticut in 1968. She attended several colleges but did not obtain a degree.^[4] She did not know she wanted to be a writer

Novels Written by Caroline B. Cooney

Stand Alone Novels

• Safe as the Grave (1979)
• Rear-View Mirror (1980)
• The Paper Caper (1981) (with Gail Owens)
• An April Love Story (1981)
• Nancy and Nick (1982)
• The Personal Touch (1982)
• He Loves Me Not (1982)
• Sand Trap (1983)
• Holly in Love (1983)
• Sun, Sea and Boys (1984)
• Nice Girls Don't (1984)
• I'm Not Your Other Half (1984)
• Don't Blame the Music (1986)
• Saturday Night (1986)
• The Rah Rah Girls (1987)
• Last Dance (1987)
• Among Friends (1987)
• New Year's Eve (1988)
• The Girl Who Invented Romance (1988)
• Camp Girl-Meets-Boy (1988)
• Summer Nights (1988)
• Family Reunion (1989)
• Summer Love (1990)
• Camp Reunion (1991)
• The Party's Over (1991)
• Twenty Pageants Later (1991)
• Freeze Tag (1992)
• Flight #116 Is Down (1992)
• Operation: Homefront (1992)
• Perfume (1993)
• Forbidden (1993)
• The Stranger (1993)
• Emergency Room (1994)
• Driver's Ed (1994)
• Twins (1994)
• Unforgettable (1994)
• Night School (1995)
• Flash Fire (1995)
• Wanted! (1997)
• The Terrorist (1997)
• What Child is This?: A Christmas Story (1997)
• Hush Little Baby (1999)
• Burning Up (1999)
• Tune in Anytime (1999)
• Mummy (2000)
• Mercy (2001) aka The Ransom of Mercy Carter
• Fatality (2001)
• Goddess of Yesterday (2002) aka On the Seas to Troy
• Evil Returns (2003)
• Fatal Bargain (2003)
• The Vampire's Promise: Deadly Offer (2003)
• Code Orange (2005)
• Hit the Road (2006)
• A Friend at Midnight (2006)
• Enter Three Witches (2007)
• Diamonds in the Shadow (2007)
• A Night to Remember (2009)
• If the Witness Lied (2009)
• They Never Came Back (2009)
• Three Black Swans (2010)
• The Lost Songs (2011)

The Vampire's Promise trilogy

• Deadly Offer (originally titled The Cheerleader) (1991)
• Evil Returns (originally titled The Return of the Vampire) (1992)
• Fatal Bargain (originally titled The Vampire's Promise) (1993)

Janie Johnson series

• The Face on the Milk Carton
• Whatever Happened to Janie?
• The Voice on the Radio
• What Janie Found
• What Janie Saw (New Ebook)
• Janie Face to Face

Losing Christina Series

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

The Losing Christina books have since been retitled Fog, Snow, and Fire.

Time Travelers Quartet

• Both Sides of Time (1995)
• Out of Time (1996)
• Prisoner of Time (1998)
• For All Time (2001)

References

External links

• Caroline B. Cooney at the Internet Movie Database
• Bibliography at Fantastic Fiction
• Caroline B. Cooney at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Caroline Cooney at Library of Congress Authorities, with 84 catalog records