Artemis Cooper
Artemis Cooper, Lady Beevor FRSL is a British writer, primarily of biographies. She is married to historian Sir Antony Beevor.
Family life
She is the only daughter of The 2nd Viscount Norwich and his first wife, Anne, and a paternal granddaughter of Duff and 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.Cooper 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.
She spent time in Egypt with Voluntary Service Overseas teaching English at the University of Alexandria. She has also lived in America, mostly in New Mexico.
In 1986, Artemis Cooper married fellow writer and historian Antony Beevor. The couple have two children, Nella and Adam.
Writing career
Cooper's first book was a collection of the letters of her grandmother, Lady Diana Cooper.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.
Honours
In July 2015, she was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of York. Cooper was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2017.Books
- *U.S. edition: The Diana Cooper Scrapbook Cairo in the War, 1939-1945 Watching in the Dark: A Child's Fight for Life Writing at the Kitchen Table: The Authorized Biography of Elizabeth David Paris After the Liberation, 1944-1949
- *Paris despues de la liberación 1944-1949 Words of Mercury Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure
- ''Elizabeth Jane Howard: A Dangerous Innocence''
Editor
Tango Mr Wu and Mrs Stitch: The Letters of Evelyn Waugh and Diana Cooper- Patrick Leigh Fermor. ''The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos''