For award-winning, internationally-acclaimed author Rosemary Sutcliff (1920-92). By Anthony Lawton: godson, cousin & literary executor. Rosemary Sutcliff wrote historical fiction, children's literature and books, films, TV & radio, including The Eagle of the Ninth, Sword at Sunset, Song for a Dark Queen, The Mark of the Horse Lord, The Silver Branch, The Lantern Bearers, Dawn Wind, Blue Remembered Hills.
I am starting to collect references by writers to the influence Rosemary Sutcliff had on them, or at least to the fact that they read her. All references very welcome, please! Thus Karen Cushman read young adult historical novels by such authors as Rosemary Sutcliffe (sic; it should be Rosemary Sutcliff) and Patricia Mac-Lachlan, admiring their “simple and polished prose.” (Source: Publishers Weeklyvol 24 (4 July) 1994). Her 1995 novel The Midwife’s Apprentice won the Newbery Medal for children’s literature
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In the introduction to her novel “Black Horses For the King”, Anne McCaffrey said that Sutcliff’s “Sword at Sunset” was a huge inspiration to her. Specifically the chapter where Arthur travels to the horse fair in Gaul to find war steeds for his cavalry — it was so fascinating to McCaffrey that it convinced her to write her own “Arthur” story, when before she had promised herself she never would.
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 
In the introduction to her novel “Black Horses For the King”, Anne McCaffrey said that Sutcliff’s “Sword at Sunset” was a huge inspiration to her. Specifically the chapter where Arthur travels to the horse fair in Gaul to find war steeds for his cavalry — it was so fascinating to McCaffrey that it convinced her to write her own “Arthur” story, when before she had promised herself she never would.
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VRy diverting to read it
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