Artemis Cooper, Lady BeevorFRSL (born the Hon.Alice Clare Antonia Opportune Cooper; 22 April 1953) is a British writer, primarily ofbiographies. She is married to historian SirAntony Beevor.

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She is the only daughter ofThe 2nd Viscount Norwich (better known as John Julius Norwich) and his first wife, Anne (née Clifford), and a paternal granddaughter ofDuff andDiana Cooper.^[1] She has a brother, the Hon. Jason Charles Duff Bede Cooper, and a half-sister,Allegra Huston, the only child of Lord Norwich andEnrica Soma (then-estranged wife of American film directorJohn Huston).^[2]

Cooper attended theFrench Lycee, theConvent of the Sacred Heart in Woldingham andCamden School for Girls. She then went toSt Hugh's College, Oxford and obtained a degree in English language and literature.^[3][4]

She spent time inEgypt withVoluntary Service Overseas teaching English at theUniversity of Alexandria. She has also lived in America, mostly inNew Mexico.^[3][5]

In 1986, Artemis Cooper married fellow writer and historianAntony Beevor. The couple have two children.^[6]

Cooper's first book was a collection of the letters of her grandmother, Lady Diana Cooper.^[7]

When her biography ofPatrick Leigh Fermor appeared in 2012, it was serialised onBBC Radio 4. It was followed in September 2013 byThe Broken Road, effectively the third volume of Leigh Fermor's memoir of his walking trip from theHook of Holland toIstanbul in the 1930s.^[8]

In July 2015, she was awarded an honorary doctorate from theUniversity of York.^[9] Cooper was elected aFellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2017.^[10]

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• Cooper, Artemis, ed. (1983).A Durable Fire: the letters of Duff and Diana Cooper 1913-1950. London: Collins.
  • U.S. edition:Cooper, Artemis, ed. (1984).A Durable Fire: the letters of Duff and Diana Cooper, 1913-1950. New York: Franklin Watts.
• The Diana Cooper Scrapbook (Hamish Hamilton, 1987)
• Cairo in the War, 1939-1945 (Hamish Hamilton, 1989;ISBN 0-241-12671-1)
• Watching in the Dark: A Child's Fight for Life (John Murray, 1992; a memoir of her daughter's childhood illness)
• Writing at the Kitchen Table: The Authorized Biography ofElizabeth David (Penguin Books Ltd, 2004; paperback ed.)
• Paris After the Liberation, 1944-1949 (Hamish Hamilton, 1994; Penguin Books, 2007; written with her husband, Antony Beevor)
  • Paris despues de la liberación 1944-1949 (2004, Spanish translation)
• Words of Mercury (John Murray, 2003; Patrick Leigh Fermor & Artemis Cooper;ISBN 0-7195-6106-X)
• Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure (John Murray, 2012;ISBN 978-0-7195-5449-0)^[8][11]
• Elizabeth Jane Howard: A Dangerous Innocence (John Murray, 2016,ISBN 9781848549272)^[12]

• Tango (Thames & Hudson, 1995; ed. Simon Collier, Artemis Cooper, Maria Susana Azzi, and Richard Martin)
• Mr Wu and Mrs Stitch: The Letters of Evelyn Waugh and Diana Cooper (ed. Artemis Cooper)
• Patrick Leigh Fermor.The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos (ed. Artemis Cooper andColin Thubron) (John Murray, 2013;ISBN 978-1-848547537)^[8]

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