Artemis Cooper
Artemis Cooper, Lady Beevor
FRSL (born the Hon. Alice Clare Antonia Opportune Cooper; 22 April 1953) is a British writer, primarily of biographies. She is married to historian Sir Antony Beevor
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Family life
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She is the only daughter of
The 2nd Viscount Norwich (better known as John Julius Norwich) and his first wife, Anne (née Clifford), and a paternal granddaughter of Duff and Diana Cooper.[1] She has a brother, the Hon. Jason Charles Duff Bede Cooper, and a half-sister, Allegra Huston, the only child of Lord Norwich and Enrica Soma (then-estranged wife of American film director John Huston).[2]
Cooper attended the French Lycee, the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Woldingham and Camden School for Girls. She then went to St Hugh's College, Oxford and obtained a degree in English language and literature.[3][4]
She spent time in
In 1986, Artemis Cooper married fellow writer and historian Antony Beevor. The couple have two children.[6]
Writing career
Cooper's first book was a collection of the letters of her grandmother, Lady Diana Cooper.[7]
When her biography of
The Broken Road, effectively the third volume of Leigh Fermor's memoir of his walking trip from the Hook of Holland to Istanbul in the 1930s.[8]
Honours
In July 2015, she was awarded an honorary doctorate from the
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2017.[10]
Bibliography
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Books
- Cooper, Artemis, ed. (1983). A Durable Fire: the letters of Duff and Diana Cooper 1913-1950. London: Collins.
- U.S. edition: Cooper, Artemis, ed. (1984). A Durable Fire: the letters of Duff and Diana Cooper, 1913-1950. New York: Franklin Watts.
- The Diana Cooper Scrapbook (Hamish Hamilton, 1987)
- Cairo in the War, 1939-1945 (Hamish Hamilton, 1989; ISBN 0-241-12671-1)
- Watching in the Dark: A Child's Fight for Life (John Murray, 1992; a memoir of her daughter's childhood illness)
- Writing at the Kitchen Table: The Authorized Biography of Elizabeth David (Penguin Books Ltd, 2004; paperback ed.)
- Paris After the Liberation, 1944-1949 (Hamish Hamilton, 1994; Penguin Books, 2007; written with her husband, Antony Beevor)
- Paris despues de la liberación 1944-1949 (2004, Spanish translation)
- Words of Mercury (John Murray, 2003; Patrick Leigh Fermor & Artemis Cooper; ISBN 0-7195-6106-X)
- ISBN 9781848549272)[12]
Editor
- Tango (Thames & Hudson, 1995; ed. Simon Collier, Artemis Cooper, Maria Susana Azzi, and Richard Martin)
- Mr Wu and Mrs Stitch: The Letters of Evelyn Waugh and Diana Cooper (ed. Artemis Cooper)
- Patrick Leigh Fermor. The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos (ed. Artemis Cooper and ISBN 978-1-848547537)[8]
References
- ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 11 July 2023.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 11 July 2023.
- ^ a b Cooper, Artemis. "Artemis Cooper - About". Retrieved 29 August 2015.
- ^ "Royal Society of Literature - Artemis Cooper". Royal Society of Literature - Fellows.
- ^ "In Conversation Live with Artemis Cooper". www.rsm.ac.uk. Retrieved 11 July 2023.
- ^ Farndale, Nigel (19 October 2014). "Antony Beevor: 'I deserved to fail history. I was bolshie...'". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 19 October 2014. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
- ^ Cunningham, John (9 December 2000). "Knowing all the right people". The Guardian.
- ^ a b c Grimes, William (8 November 2013). "Mapping a Life, and Finishing a Long Trip". The New York Times.
- ^ "University of York honours 11 for their contribution to society". University of York. Retrieved 11 July 2023.
- ^ Natasha Onwuemezi, "Rankin, McDermid and Levy named new RSL fellows", The Bookseller, 7 June 2017.
- ^ Kári Gíslason (April 2013). "A great charmer: the peripatetic and adventurous Patrick Leigh Fermor". Australian Book Review. 350: 52–53.
- ^ van der Klugt, Melissa (8 October 2016). "Elizabeth Jane Howard's life, illuminated by Artemis Cooper". The Times – via The Australian.
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