About Andrea Cooper

I’ve dined at a resort where I was the only one clothed for Details and checked out hairstyling techniques in a salon packed with Santas for Parade.  A TLC producer read one of my profiles in Parents and got an idea for a new reality show.  Sorry to say I inadvertently gave the world The Duggars.     

My work has been reprinted in England, China and New Zealand and chosen for a Reader’s Digest anthology on people who have survived all manner of disasters.  I’ve won seven national writing awards.

Favorite interviews include the rock star neurologist Oliver Sacks, who spoke just like he wrote,  and Elie Wiesel, who said more in four minutes – the actual length of the interview--than some people say in four hours.

I’m a graduate of Smith College, with a B.A. in American Studies, the most interdisciplinary major of them all.  I spent my junior year at the University of Sussex in Brighton, England, where I learned more about the United States than I ever expected.

Credits include:

AFAR.com
American Archeology
The Charlotte Observer
The Christian Science Monitor
CNN.com
Cosmopolitan
ELLE
enRoute
Entrepreneur
Details

Glamour.com
Good Housekeeping
Islands
MORE
Ms.
National Geographic Traveler
The New York Times
Newsweek
Neurology Now
NPR’s “All Things Considered”

NPR.org
Oxford American
Pacific Standard
Parade
Parents
Reader’s Digest
Redbook
Saveur
Salon.com
Saturday Evening Post

Scholastic Instructor
Time
Town & Country
TravelandLeisure.com
Utne Reader
Vogue
The Washington Post
Woman’s Day
Working Mother
WorldHum.com