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British writer
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 .
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 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
Egypt with
Voluntary Service Overseas teaching English at the
University of Alexandria . She has also lived in America, mostly in
New Mexico .
[3]
[5]
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
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.
[8]
Honours
In July 2015, she was awarded an honorary doctorate from the
University of York .
[9] Cooper was elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2017.
[10]
Bibliography
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 )
Patrick Leigh Fermor : An Adventure (John Murray, 2012;
ISBN
978-0-7195-5449-0 )
[8]
[11]
Elizabeth Jane Howard : A Dangerous Innocence (John Murray, 2016,
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
Colin Thubron ) (John Murray, 2013;
ISBN
978-1-848547537 )
[8]
References
^ Cunningham, John (9 December 2000).
"Knowing all the right people" . The Guardian .
ISSN
0261-3077 . Retrieved 11 July 2023 .
^ Maslin, Janet (1 April 2009).
"A Daughter's Life With Daddy Issues" . The New York Times .
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.
External links
Official website
International National Academics Other