Bernard Cooper
Bernard Cooper | |
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| Born | October 3, 1951 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
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| Nationality | American |
| Education | California Institute of the Arts (MFA) |
| Notable awards | PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel (1991) |
| Parents | Edward Cooper Lillian Cooper |
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Bernard Cooper (born October 3, 1951) is an American
short story writer. His writings are in part autobiographical and influenced by his own experiences as a gay man. His work has appeared in numerous magazines, journals, and five volumes of The Best American Essays.[1] Two of Cooper's novels have received literary awards. He is often described as a "writer's writer".[2] Cooper has taught at the California Institute of the Arts and Bennington College, and in 2014 he served as the Bedell Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa's nonfiction writing program.[3]
Biography, education and work
Cooper was born in Hollywood, California, to Jewish parents; Lillian and Edward Cooper.[4] He was the youngest of his parents' four boys, and was raised in Los Angeles.[4] His three older brothers all died from either cancer or heart attack, when they were in their 30s.[4] His father was a prosperous divorce attorney in Los Angeles, and his mother was a "stay-at-home-mom".[5][6] In an interview with The Los Angeles Times, Cooper stated that while growing up, he didn't speak that much to his father, and when they did, "it wasn't for long".[4] When Cooper was 28 years old, he received an itemized bill, written by his father, in the form of an official document, outlining the costs associated with raising him, with a mandate for a $2 million repayment, as told in his book, The Bill From My Father.[5][4]
Cooper graduated from the
Los Angeles Magazine.[9] In 2009, Cooper held the 'Mary Routt Chair of Writing' at Scripps College, where he taught for a semester.[1]
Awards and fellowships
His awards and fellowships include the
Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for Maps to Anywhere, the O. Henry Award for Truth Serum, and has also received a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.[7][10]
Works
- (1990) Maps To Anywhere. Penguin Books. 1990.
- (1991) A Clack of Tiny Sparks: Remembrances of a Gay Boyhood
- (1993) A Year of Rhymes. Viking. 1993. ISBN 978-0-670-84732-7.
- (1996) Truth Serum. Houghton Mifflin Co. 1996. ISBN 978-0-395-74539-7.
- (2000) Guess again. Simon & Schuster. 2000. ISBN 978-0-684-86586-7.
- (2006) The Bill From My Father: A Memoir. Simon & Schuster. 2006. ISBN 978-0-7432-4962-1.
- (2015) My Avant-Garde Education: A Memoir. W.W. Norton & Company. 2015. ISBN 978-0-393-24071-9.
The Best American Essays
- (1988) The Best American Essays. Ticknor & Fields. 1988. ISBN 978-0-89919-730-2.
- (1995) The Best American Essays. Houghton Mifflin. 1995. ISBN 978-0-395-69183-0.
- (1997) The Best American Essays. Houghton Mifflin. 1997. ISBN 978-0-395-85695-6.
- (2002) The Best American Essays. Houghton Mifflin. 2002. ISBN 978-0-618-21388-7.
- (2008) The Best American Essays. Houghton Mifflin. 2008. ISBN 978-0-618-98331-5.
Selected journal articles
- (1987) Cooper, Bernard (1987). "Beacons Burning Down". The Georgia Review. 41 (2): 249–257. JSTOR 41399283.
- (1988) Cooper, Bernard (1988). "Utopia". Grand Street. 8 (1): 47–49. JSTOR 25007166.
- (1989) Cooper, Bernard (1989). "The House of the Future". Grand Street. 8 (3): 73–104. JSTOR 25007236.
- (1990) Cooper, Bernard (1990). "Dreaming Aloud". The Kenyon Review. 12 (2): 55–57. JSTOR 4336225.
- (1999) Cooper, Bernard (1999). "Hunters and Gatherers". Ploughshares. 25 (1): 25–49. JSTOR 40352568.
- (2000) Cooper, Bernard (2000). "Bit-O-Honey". The Threepenny Review (80): 23–25. JSTOR 4384905.
- (2001) Cooper, Bernard (2001). "How to Draw". The Georgia Review. 55/56: 184–186. JSTOR 41402131.
References
- ^ a b "Mary Routt Chair of Writing". Scripps College. Archived from the original on July 7, 2022.
- ^ "Arts & Letters author series: Bernard Cooper". The Desert Sun. February 22, 2015. p. A6.
- ^ a b "Reading by NWP Visiting Professor Bernard Cooper". University of Iowa English Department.
- ^ The Los Angeles Times. p. R2.
- ^ ISSN 0038-6952.
- ^ Mann, Mary (November 21, 2016). ""Words Ain't What They Used to Be": A Conversation with Bernard Cooper". Music & Literature.
- ^ a b c d Kaczorowski, Craig (2015). "Cooper, Bernard (b. 1951)" (PDF). glbtq Encyclopedia. pp. 1–2.
- ^ Pick, Nancy (September 21, 1994). "Bernard Cooper reading". Daily Hampshire Gazzette. p. 33.
- ^ Whittle, Kate (November 20, 2014). "Marrow Aching". Missoula Independent. p. 25.
- ^ "St. Lawrence Writers Series Begins Year with Bernard Cooper". St. Lawrence University. January 17, 2013.
External links
- Bernard Cooper Information from The Steven Barclay Agency Archived February 9, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
- Interview with Cooper at Bomb (magazine)
- Visual art series at bernardcooper.net
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