Conly, Jane Leslie
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1948- ) US author, daughter of Robert C O'Brien; her first work comprised a two-part continuation of her father's Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (1971) with Rasco and the Rats of NIMH (1986) and R. T., Margaret, and the Rats of NIMH (1991), carrying the story of the race of intelligent, articulate, laboratory rats into new territories: first a rural setting where the rats foil the plans of a developer; then a remote woods, where lost human children are succoured by the kindly rodent community. The Rudest Alien on Earth (2002), also written for the Young Adult market, is a singleton about a young Alien who spies, against his race's dictates on the matter, upon a human family. [JC]
Jane Leslie Conly
born Virginia: January 1948
works
series
Rats of NIMH
- Rasco and the Rats of NIMH (New York: Harper and Row, 1986) [Rats of NIMH: hb/Leonard Lubin]
- R. T., Margaret, and the Rats of NIMH (New York: Harper and Row, 1990) [Rats of NIMH: hb/Leonard Lubin]
individual titles
- The Rudest Alien on Earth (New York: Henry Holt, 2002) [hb/Loren Long]
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