Helene Cooper

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name = Helene Cooper
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birth_date = c. 1966
birth_place = Monrovia, Liberia
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occupation = diplomatic correspondent
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title = Editorial editor
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credits = "The New York Times", "The Wall Street Journal"
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Helene Cooper (born c. 1966) is a Liberian-born American journalist who has been the diplomatic correspondent for "The New York Times", based in Washington, since 2006. She joined the "Times" in 2004 as assistant editorial page editor.

At "The Wall Street Journal", Cooper wrote about trade, politics, race and foreign policy at the Washington and Atlanta bureaus from 1992 to 1997. From 1997 to 1999, she reported on the European Monetary Union from the London bureau. From 1999 to 2002, she was a reporter focusing on international economics; then Washington bureau chief from 2002 to 2004.

In 2008, she published a memoir entitled "The House at Sugar Beach" (Simon & Shuster). The memoir largely concerns the Liberian coup of 1980 and its effect on Cooper's family, socially and politically-elite descendants of American freed slaves who colonized the country in the 19th century.

Personal

Cooper was born in Monrovia, Liberia. [ [http://www.nndb.com/people/194/000123822/ NNDB entry for Helene Cooper] Accessed 21 February 2007.]

Bibliography

* "The House at Sugar Beach." Memoir (2008)

As Editor

* Pearl, Daniel. "At Home in the World." New York: The Free Press, 2002. ISBN 074324317X ISBN 978-0743243179

Notes

Links

* [http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=sf.profile&person_id=82144 Biography] Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2004)
* [http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/helene_cooper/index.html?inline=nyt-per Recent "New York Times" articles by Helene Cooper]