Bernard Cooper is an American

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and

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. He was born on October 3, 1951, in

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. His writing is in part autobiographical and influenced by his own experiences as a gay man. Bernard Cooper's fiction and essays have received several awards. He has both his BFA and MFA in art from

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. Cooper has taught at the California Institute of the Arts and Bennington College, and in 2014 he served as the prestigious Bedell Distinguished Visiting Professor at the

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's Nonfiction Writing Program.

Works

*(1990) ''Maps to Anywhere'' *(1991) ''A Clack of Tiny Sparks: Remembrances of a Gay Boyhood'' *(1993) ''A Year of Rhymes'' *(1996) ''Truth Serum'' *(2000) ''Guess Again'' *(2006) ''The Bill From My Father: A Memoir''

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Bernard Cooper Information from The Steven Barclay Agency
1951 births American gay writers Jewish American writers Lambda Literary Award winners Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award winners LGBT Jews Living people People from Hollywood, Los Angeles 20th-century American novelists 21st-century American novelists American LGBT novelists LGBT people from California American male novelists American memoirists LGBT memoirists 20th-century American male writers 21st-century American male writers 20th-century American non-fiction writers 21st-century American non-fiction writers American male non-fiction writers 21st-century American Jews 21st-century LGBT people {{lgbt-activist-stub