Artemis Cooper

The Hon. Artemis Cooper (born 22 April 1953) is a British writer.

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. She 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.<ref = name="Artemis Cooper...">Cooper, Artemis. ["http://artemiscooper.com/about/" "Artemis Cooper - About"] Check |url= value (help). Retrieved 29 August 2015.</ref> In July 2015, she was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of York.

She spent time in Alexandria, Egypt, with Voluntary Service Overseas teaching English at the University of Alexandria. She has also lived in America, mostly in New Mexico.^[1]

In 1986, Artemis Cooper married fellow writer and historian Antony Beevor. The couple have two children, Nella and Adam.^[2]

Bibliography

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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 liberacion 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)

Editor

• Tango (Thames & Hudson, 1995; ed. Simon Collier, Artemis Cooper, Maria Susana Azzi, & Richard Martin)
• Mr Wu and Mrs Stitch: The Letters of Evelyn Waugh and Diana Cooper (editor)
• The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos (editor) (John Murray, 2013; ISBN 978-1-848547537)

Critical studies and reviews

• Gíslason, Kári (April 2013). "A great charmer : the peripatetic and adventurous Patrick Leigh Fermor". Australian Book Review 350: 52–53. Review of Patrick Leigh Fermor : an adventure.

Reception of Work

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.^[3]

References

2. Farndale, Nigel. "Antony Beevor: 'I deserved to fail history. I was bolshie...'". http://www.telegraph.co.uk/. The Telegraph. Retrieved 10 November 2014.
3. "Patrick Leigh Fermor - The Broken Road - Hodder & Stoughton". Hodder & Stoughton. Retrieved 20 December 2015.