House at Sugar Beach (Cooper)

Author Bio
• Birth—1966
• Where—Monrovia, Liberia
• Education—University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Currently—lives in the Washington, D.C., area

Helene Cooper is the diplomatic correspondent for the New York Times. Prior to that assignment, she was the assistant editorial page editor of the New York Times, after twelve years as a reporter and foreign correspondent at the Wall Street Journal. She was born in Monrovia, Liberia, and lives in the Washington, D.C., area. (From the publisher.)

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Helene Cooper was born in Liberia, the descendant of Elijah Johnson and Randolph Cooper—freed American slaves who were early settlers of Liberia. She is now an American journalist who has been the diplomatic correspondent for the New York Times, based in Washington, D.C., 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.

Her 2008 memoir, The House at Sugar Beach, 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. (From Wikipedia.)