Helene Cooper
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Title | Pentagon correspondent, The New York Times |
Helene Cooper (born April 22, 1966) is a Liberian-born American journalist who is a Pentagon correspondent for The New York Times. Before that, she was the paper's White House correspondent in Washington, D.C. She joined the Times in 2004 as assistant editorial page editor.
Career
She was a member of
At
In 2000, she and colleague Bob Davis won the Raymond Clapper Memorial Award for their Washington reporting.[5]
In 2008, she published a
She is the author of the book Madame President, about Liberia's first female president.
Personal life
Cooper was born in
In a piece about her reaction to the Trump Administration's freeze on Muslim refugees, Cooper recounted her own experience as a 13-year-old refugee leaving Liberia. Her father was shot (but survived), her cousin was executed, and her mother agreed to be gang-raped by soldiers to protect her and her sisters. They came to the U.S. on a tourist visa, which they overstayed until Ronald Reagan's amnesty gave them green cards. When she read an account of an Iranian family being taken off a plane, she remembered how her family was waiting for the takeoff in Liberia, praying that no one would take them off.[10]
Helene Cooper is first cousins with Wilmot Collins, the current mayor of Helena, Montana. He is known for being the first black person to be elected as mayor of a Montanan town or city (after its statehood in November 1889).[11][12]
Bibliography
- Madame President, New York: ISBN 9781451697360.
- The House at Sugar Beach, New York: ISBN 0-7432-6624-2.
- Editor of ISBN 0-7432-4317-X.
Notes
- ^ a b c "Helene Cooper." Contemporary Black Biography. Vol. 74. Farmington Hills, Michigan: Gale, 2009. Retrieved via Biography in Context database, December 29, 2017.
- ^ "The 2015 Pulitzer Prize Winner in International Reporting". pulitzer.org. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved December 29, 2017.
The New York Times Staff. For courageous front-line reporting and vivid human stories on Ebola in Africa, engaging the public with the scope and details of the outbreak while holding authorities accountable
- ^ Cooper, Helene (October 4, 2014). "Ebola's Cultural Casualty: Hugs in Hands-On Liberia". The New York Times. Retrieved December 29, 2017.
- ^ "2015 Pulitzer Prize Winners in Journalism, Letters, Drama and Music". The New York Times. 20 April 2015. Retrieved December 29, 2017.
International Reporting: Staff, The New York Times.
- ISBN 9780743244152.
- ^ Elkins, Caroline (September 5, 2008). "African Idyll" (review of Helene Cooper, The House at Sugar Beach). New York Times. Retrieved December 29, 2017.
- ^ Banks, Eric (January 25, 2009). "2008 NBCC Finalists Announced: Finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Awards Announced" (blog post). Critical Mass. National Books Critics Circle. Retrieved December 29, 2017.
- ^ Kann, Wendy (August 31, 2008). "Homecoming" (review of Helene Cooper, The House at Sugar Beach). Washington Post. Retrieved December 29, 2017.
- ^ "Helene Cooper". NNDB (Notable Names Database). Retrieved February 21, 2007.
- ^ Cooper, Helene (January 31, 2017). "A Washington Correspondent's Own Refugee Experience". New York Times. Retrieved December 29, 2017.
- ^ "A Year After Trump, Women and Minorities Give Groundbreaking Wins to Democrats" New York Times. November 8, 2017. Retrieved September 1, 2018.
- ^ "Will Helena's Wilmot Collins be Montana's first black mayor? Not exactly, historians say". Helena Independent Record. November 8, 2017. Retrieved September 1, 2018.
External links
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Biography Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2004)
- Recent New York Times articles by Helene Cooper
- New York Times, Pulitzer Prize-winning articles on Ebola
- Kirkus Review of The House at Sugar Beach, by Helen Cooper