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.
Rosemary Sutcliff, or more accurately The Eagle film of The Eagle of the Ninth novel, is The Daily Telegraph’s 38th reason for being excited about 2011! It is my Number One!
Rosemary Sutcliff’s beloved novel The Eagle of the Ninth gets the big screen treatment in Touching the Void director Kevin Macdonald’s new film … Channing Tatum stars as the Roman soldier searching for the standard lost by his father’s legion in the wilds of northern England. Source: The Daily Telegraph.