Name Artemis Cooper Role Writer | Nephews Rafael Guevara | |
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Parents Anne Frances May Clifford, John Julius Norwich Siblings Allegra Huston, Jason Charles Duff Bede Cooper Grandparents Lady Diana Cooper, Duff Cooper, Bede Edmund Hugh Clifford Books Patrick Leigh Fermor: A, Cairo in the War - 1939‑1945, Writing at the kitchen table, Paris Despues de La Lib, Watching in the Dark Similar People Patrick Leigh Fermor, Antony Beevor, Lady Diana Cooper, Duff Cooper, John Julius Norwich | ||
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Artemis Cooper FRSL (born 22 April 1953) is a British writer, primarily of biographies.
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Family life
She is the only daughter of the second Viscount Norwich and his first wife, Anne (née Clifford), and a granddaughter of Lady 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 Huston, the estranged wife of American film director John Huston.
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. 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, Nella and Adam.
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 in 2017.