Artemis Cooper

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The Hon. Alice Clare Antonia Opportune Beevor (née the Hon. Artemis Cooper, born 22 April 1953) is a British writer known as Artemis Cooper.

She is the only daughter of the 2nd Viscount Norwich and his first wife, the former Anne Clifford, and a granddaughter of the British society figure Lady Diana Cooper. She has a brother, the Hon. Jason Charles Duff Bede Cooper, and a half-sister, Allegra Huston, the only child of Lord Norwich and Enrica Soma Huston, the estranged wife of American film director John Huston.

In 1986, she married fellow writer and historian Antony Beevor and they have two children, Eleanor Allegra Lucie (b. 1990) and Adam John Cosmo (b. 1993).

Her books include "Writing at the Kitchen Table" (a biography of cookery expert Elizabeth David), "Paris After the Liberation, 1944-1949" (written with her husband, Antony Beevor), "Mr. Wu and Mrs. Stitch: The Letters of Evelyn Waugh and Diana Cooper" and "Durable Fire: The Letters of Duff and Diana Cooper (both of which she edited), "Watching in the Dark" (a memoir of her daughter's childhood illness), and "Cairo in the War, 1939-1945".