Artemis Cooper

The Hon. Alice Clare Antonia Opportune Cooper Beevor (born 22 April 1953) is a British writer known as Artemis Cooper.

Known as Artemis, a nickname which honors her paternal grandmother, she is the only daughter of the 2nd Viscount Norwich and his first wife, the former Anne Clifford, and a granddaughter of the British society figure 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.

In 1986, she married fellow writer and historian Antony Beevor and they have two children, Eleanor Allegra Lucie (b. 1990) and Adam John Cosmo (b. 1993).

Her books include ', "Paris After the Liberation, 1944-1949" (written with her husband, Antony Beevor), ' (which she edited) and ' (which she also edited), ' (a memoir of her daughter's childhood illness), and "Cairo in the War, 1939-1945".

In 2004 she was known to be writing the biography of Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor [ [http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2025178,00.html Literary legend learning to type at 92 | News | guardian.co.uk Books ] ]