Artemis Cooper, Lady Beevor
FRSL
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(born Alice Clare Antonia Opportune Cooper; 22 April 1953) is a British writer, primarily of
biographies. She is married to historian Sir
Antony Beevor.
Family life
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
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and
Diana Cooper. 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
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).
Cooper attended the
French Lycee
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, the
Convent of the Sacred Heart in Woldingham and
Camden School for Girls. She then went to
St Hugh's College, Oxford
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and obtained a degree in English language and literature.
In July 2015, she was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of York.
She spent time in
Egypt with
Voluntary Service Overseas teaching English at the
University of Alexandria. She has also lived in America, mostly in
New Mexico.
In 1986, Artemis Cooper married fellow writer and historian
Antony Beevor. The couple have two children.
Writing career
Cooper's first book was a collection of the letters of her grandmother, Lady Diana Cooper.
When her biography of
Patrick Leigh Fermor appeared in 2012, it was serialised on
BBC Radio 4. It was followed in September 2013 by ''
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.
[
Cooper was elected a ]Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
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in 2017.
Bibliography
Books
*
**U.S. edition:
* ''The Diana Cooper Scrapbook'' (Hamish Hamilton, 1987)
* ''Cairo in the War, 1939-1945'' (Hamish Hamilton, 1989; )
* ''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; )
* '' Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure'' (John Murray, 2012; )
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 Colin Thubron) (John Murray, 2013; )[
]
References
External links
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Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
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21st-century English historians
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British people of New Zealand descent
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