February 24: essayist & fiction writer Bernard Cooper

Winner of the PEN/Ernest Hemingway Award and the O.Henry Prize, Bernard Cooper teaches at Antioch/Los Angeles and at the UCLA Writer's Program. "Cooper is a master of the language of memory and truth," says Amy Tan. He's published two memoirs, as well as the nove,l A YEAR OF RHYMES. "TRUTH SERUM is one of the most beautiful and moviing memoirs I've ever read;" wrote Tony Kushner, "it will become a classic of the form. The past is not only retrievable but brilliantly, lucidly, immediately present, exquisitely details, full of mystery and meaning." Cooper's work has appeared in HARPER'S, THE PARIS REVIEW, the NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE, and in anthologies such as BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS, and THE OXFORD BOOK of LITERATURE on AGING, among other places. He's currently working under contract on a collection of short stories. Of Cooper, Phillip Lopate has said, "When [an] author has this much intelligence, verbal dexterity, warmth, and honesty, we can safely predict we will be reading him with relish for years to come."

Books available by Bernard Cooper:
Maps to Anywhere
Truth Serum: Memoirs.
Best American Gay Fiction 2.



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