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Helene Cooper
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Helene Cooper

Helene Cooper is the White House correspondent for the New York Times, having previously served as the diplomatic correspondent and the assistant editorial page editor. Prior to moving to the Times, Helene spent 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.

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Jul 24, 2009
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Jun 13, 2009
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Dec 19, 2008
The House at Sugar Beach will be released on September 02, 2008 in Hardcover
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The House at Sugar Beach will be released on September 02, 2008 in eBook
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The Week Magazine, November 11, 2011
...The former Newsweek editor recommends the life stories of journalists Joan Didion, Joseph Lelyveld, and Helene Cooper Mukiwa by Peter Godwin (Grove, $16). This memoir by a white reporter from Zimbabwe is both a moving coming-of-age tale and a compelling...
Guardian.co.uk, October 26, 2011
...leading the blind, and yet still somehow find their way home. 3. The House at Sugar Beach by Helene Cooper One of the most memorable memoirs of childhood written in the last decade. Honest, informative and very restrained, this is the story of one...
Christian Century, October 12, 2011
...of 5 stars(2) $10.40 The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost Af... by Helene Cooper 4.2 out of 5 stars(85) $10.20 Editorial Reviews Review Michelle Bachelet, Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women “…a beautifully written...
Mother Jones, May 9, 2011
...bouquet of five interesting stories, including word count and approximate reading time. (Readers can also .) | Mark Mazzetti, Helene Cooper, Peter Baker | New York Times | May 3, 2011 | 12 minutes (3,060 words) From the Times, one of the earliest...
ArticlesBase, April 30, 2011
...later on as she excitedly tells you about her new preferred guide, The Home at Sugar Beach, by Helene Cooper, and that she has re-joined her e-book club. �? You hand your son your Kindle with A Tale of Two Metropolitan areas ready for him on the...
World News Network, April 1, 2011
...Ppress Conference on Libya Obama makes historic shift on gay rights Obama Condemns Libya Amid Stalled Evacuation By HELENE COOPER and MARK LANDLER WASHINGTON — President Obama broke four days of silence on Wednesday to "strongly condemn" the Libyan...
Books LIVE, October 14, 2011
...Coetzee’s Life and Times of Michael K , Alexander Kanengoni’s and Echoing Silences . More recently, Fuller read Helene Cooper’s The House at Sugar Beach : As a child growing up in Zimbabwe, I always lived on farms in remote places. When we did go...
Booman Tribune, June 22, 2011
..."change" from Bush. From the NYT: Obama to Announce Plans for Afghan Surge Pullout By MARK LANDLER and HELENE COOPER Published: June 20, 2011 WASHINGTON -- President Obama plans to announce his decision on the scale and pace of troop withdrawals from...
Booman Tribune, June 18, 2011
...- For Some Your Page Recent Comments Diaries Donate West Midwest South East Cafe/Lounge Wanker of the Day: Helene Cooper by BooMan Sat Jun 18th, 2011 at 10:57:24 AM EST I guess Helene Cooper drew the short stick at the New York Times and got stuck...
Author Exposure, May 20, 2011
...Title: The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood Author: Helene Cooper Publisher: Simon & Schuster ISBN, PUB Date: 978-0-7432-6625-3, July 21, 2009 Reviewed By: Denien Robbins for Author Exposure Before Helene Cooper was a White...
The Political Carnival, May 15, 2011
...Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA); Roundtable : E.J. Dionne (Washington Post), Peggy Noonan (Wall Street Journal), Mark Halperin (TIME), Helene Cooper (New York Times) and Matt Bai (New York Times Magazine). Face the Nation : House Speaker John Boehner...
band annie's Weblog, May 4, 2011
...By MARK LANDLER and HELENE COOPERPublished: May 3, 2011WASHINGTON — Osama bin Laden was not carrying a weapon when he was killed by American troops in a fortified house in Pakistan, the White House said Tuesday, as it revised its initial account of the...