Elisha Cooper

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name = Elisha Cooper
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birthdate = Birth date and age|1971|2|22
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occupation = Writer, Illustrator
nationality = United States
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genre = Fiction, Non-fiction, Children's literature
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website = http://www.elishacooper.com

Elisha Cooper is an American writer and illustrator and author of the memoir "Crawling: A Father's First Year" as well as children's books, including "Beach", "A Good Night Walk", "A Year in New York", and "Dance!", which was a "New York Times" Ten Best Illustrated winner.

Cooper went to Foote School in Connecticut and graduated from Yale, then worked for "The New Yorker" as a messenger.

"Beach" was a Society of Illustrators Gold Medal best illustrated book of the year in 2006. His other books include "Ice Cream", "Bear Dreams", "Magic Thinks Big", "Off the Road", "Country Fair", "Ballpark", "A Day At Yale", "Building", "Henry", and "California".

His most recent project is "ridiculous/hilarious/terrible/cool: A Year in an American High School", for which Cooper spent a year with eight students at Walter Payton High School in Chicago.

"Bookslut" notes that "the interaction between author and subject is seamless" [Mondor, C: [http://www.bookslut.com/bookslut_in_training/2008_03_012502.php "Bookslut in Training: Ridiculous Hilarious Terrible Cool"] , "Bookslut", March 2008. Accessed March 13, 2008.] and "Publishers Weekly" wrote, "Cooper, known for his savvy picture books ("Beach"; "A Good Night Walk") and his parenting memoir, "Crawling", trains his sights on teens with this perceptive documentary account of an academic year at Walter Payton High....the considerable strengths of the work come from Cooper's genius for observation and confident refusal to dramatize what he finds." ["Publishers Weekly" review: [http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6534279.html "Children's Books"] , "Publishers Weekly", February 25, 2008. Accessed March 2008.]

The "New York Times Book Review" said of "Magic Thinks Big", "Elisha Cooper's watercolors, like his sentences, are simple and quiet and essentially perfect." [Ferrara, D: [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C07E1D81739F934A15755C0A9629C8B63 "Fat and Happy"] , "The New York Times Book Review", June 27, 2004. Accessed February 28, 2008.]

He currently lives in New York City with his wife and two daughters.

Bibliography

Books

*(1995) " [http://elishacooper.com/a_year_in_new_york/a_year_in_new_york.html A Year in New York] "
*(1998) " [http://elishacooper.com/a_day_at_yale/a_day_at_yale.html A Day At Yale] "
*(1998) " [http://elishacooper.com/ballpark/ballpark.html Ballpark] "
*(1999) " [http://elishacooper.com/henry/henry.html Henry] "
*(1999) " [http://elishacooper.com/building/building.html Building] "
*(2000) " [http://elishacooper.com/california/california.html California] "
*(2001) " [http://elishacooper.com/dance/dance.html Dance!] "
*(2002) " [http://elishacooper.com/ice_cream/ice_cream.html Ice Cream] "
*(2004) " [http://elishacooper.com/magic_thinks_big/magic_thinks_big.html Magic Thinks Big] "
*(2005) " [http://elishacooper.com/a_good_night_walk/a_good_night_walk.html A Good Night Walk] "
*(2006) " [http://elishacooper.com/crawling/crawling.html Crawling: A Father's First Year] "
*(2006) " [http://elishacooper.com/beach/beach.html Beach] "
*(2006) " [http://elishacooper.com/bear_dreams/bear_dreams.html Bear Dreams] "
*(2008) " [http://elishacooper.com/RHTC/RHTC.html ridiculous/hilarious/terrible/cool: A Year in an American High School] "

References

External links

* [http://elishacooper.com/ Official website] at elishacooper.com
* [http://content.scholastic.com/browse/contributor.jsp?id=3006 Elisha Cooper at Scholastic Books]
* [http://www.authortracker.ca/author.asp?a=authorid&b=16094 Elisha Cooper at AuthorTracker]
* [http://biography.jrank.org/pages/1146/Cooper-Elisha-1971.html Elisha Cooper (1971-) Biography - Personal, Addresses, Career, Writings, Sidelights]
* http://www.answers.com/topic/elisha-cooper
* [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0803731698 ridiculous/hilarious/terrible/cool: a year in an american high school]
* [http://elishacooper.com/upcoming/upcoming.php?content=projects Upcoming Projects] at elishacooper.com