T Cooper

T Cooper (born Malibu, California) is an American novelist. He is the author of four novels, including The Beaufort Diaries (graphic novel: Melville House, 2010), Lipshitz Six, or Two Angry Blondes (Dutton/Penguin, 2006), and Some of the Parts (Akashic Books, 2002). Cooper is also co-editor of the anthology A Fictional History of the United States with Huge Chunks Missing (Akashic Books, 2006). His most recent books are the nonfiction Real Man Adventures (McSweeney's, 2013), and Young Adult novel Changers Book One: Drew (Akashic Books, 2014), which he co-wrote with Allison Glock-Cooper.

Biography

Cooper earned an undergraduate degree from Middlebury College and an MFA in fiction writing from Columbia University. He has twice been a fellow of the MacDowell Colony. He has also attended Ledig House International and The Millay Colony, where he was The New York Times Foundation fellow for 2008. Cooper lives with his family in New York City and Atlanta. He is transgender.

Since the publication of Lipshitz Six in 2006, Cooper has received significant positive critical attention, including a positive review in The New York Times Book Review and being placed on both Time Out New York magazine's list of "25 New Yorkers to Keep an Eye On in 2006" and Out magazine's "100 Men and Women Who Rocked 2006" list. The novel was also chosen as a Best Book of 2006 by The Believer and The Austin Chronicle.

Cooper's shorter writing has appeared in a variety of publications, including The New Yorker,[1] One Story, The New York Times, The New York Times Style Magazine, The Believer, Poets & Writers, Electric Literature, O: The Oprah Magazine, The Brooklyn Review, Bomb, Portland Review, Document Journal, Columbia Journal, and several others.

Bibliography

References

  1. ↑ Cooper, T (August 20, 2007), "Swimming", The New Yorker (magazine), retrieved 20 August 2007

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