Author Louise Cooper Dies

British fantasy author Louise Cooper's own web site reports her death on 21 October 2009 of a brain aneurysm. Born Louise Antell on 29 May 1952 in Hertfordshire, England, she may be best known for The Time Master trilogy. She wrote nearly 80 novels for adults and children over her career.

Cooper began writing while she was still in school, continued writing stories while she worked as a secretary ("when I should have been typing letters"), and became a full-time freelancer in 1977 (in addition to fiction, she was a copy editor and proofreader, and wrote cover copy for novels).

Cooper's web site is a comprehensive review of her life's work.

She is survived by her second husband, artist Cas Sandall, whom she married in 1999.