Born in 1966 in Monrovia, Liberia, Helene Cooper has been the diplomatic correspondent for The New York Times since 2006. She joined the Times in 2004. From 1992-2004, Cooper was with The Wall Street Journal. Cooper has appeared on the television show 
Washington Week in Review.
Cooper came to the United States at 14 years of age. She earened her undergraduate degree in journalism from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
In 2008, Cooper published a memoir entitled The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood. The memoir is largely about the Liberian coup of 1980 and its effect on the Cooper family. It chronicles the social evolution of Liberia through the eyes of Ms. Cooper’s family, which is descended from African American slaves who emigrated to Liberia in the 19th century. For a N.Y. Times review of the book, click here.
Cooper became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1997.
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