Helene Cooper

Leslie Cashen

About The Author

Helene Cooper is the Pulitzer Prize–winning Pentagon correspondent for The New York Times, having previously served as White House Correspondent, diplomatic correspondent, and the assistant editorial page editor. Prior to moving to there, Helene spent twelve years as a reporter and foreign correspondent at The Wall Street Journal. She is the author of the bestselling memoir, The House at Sugar Beach, and Madame President, a biography of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. She was born in Monrovia, Liberia, and lives in the Washington, DC, area.

Books by Helene Cooper

The House at Sugar Beach

In Search of a Lost African Childhood

By Helene Cooper
In this memoir that is “nothing short of brilliant” (The New York Times Book Review), journalist Helene Cooper examines the violent past of her home country Liberia and the effects of its 1980 military coup.
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At Home in the World

Collected Writings from The Wall Street Journal

By Daniel Pearl
Edited by Helene Cooper / Foreword by Mariane Pearl
Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl became the focus of international concern when he was kidnapped by Islamic extremists in Pakistan while investigating a story. News of his brutal murder in February 2002 was universally denounced, a tragic loss of a good man and a compassionate journalist...
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