Elisha Cooper

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Elisha Cooper

Born February 22, 1971 (1971-02-22) (age 37)
Occupation Writer, Illustrator
Nationality United States
Genres Fiction, Non-fiction, Children's literature
Official website


Elisha Cooper is an American writer and illustrator and author of the memoir Crawling: A Father's First Year as well as children's books, including Beach, A Good Night Walk, A Year in New York, and Dance!, which was a New York Times Ten Best Illustrated winner.

Cooper went to Foote School in Connecticut and graduated from Yale, then worked for The New Yorker as a messenger.

Beach was a Society of Illustrators Gold Medal best illustrated book of the year in 2006. His other books include Ice Cream, Bear Dreams, Magic Thinks Big, Off the Road, Country Fair, Ballpark, A Day At Yale, Building, Henry, and California.

His most recent project is ridiculous/hilarious/terrible/cool: A Year in an American High School, for which Cooper spent a year with eight students at Walter Payton High School in Chicago.

Bookslut notes that "the interaction between author and subject is seamless" [1] and Publishers Weekly wrote, "Cooper, known for his savvy picture books (Beach; A Good Night Walk) and his parenting memoir, Crawling, trains his sights on teens with this perceptive documentary account of an academic year at Walter Payton High....the considerable strengths of the work come from Cooper's genius for observation and confident refusal to dramatize what he finds." [2]

The New York Times Book Review said of Magic Thinks Big, "Elisha Cooper's watercolors, like his sentences, are simple and quiet and essentially perfect." [3]

He currently lives in New York City with his wife and two daughters.


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  1. ^ Mondor, C: "Bookslut in Training: Ridiculous Hilarious Terrible Cool", Bookslut, March 2008. Accessed March 13, 2008.
  2. ^ Publishers Weekly review: "Children's Books", Publishers Weekly, February 25, 2008. Accessed March 2008.
  3. ^ Ferrara, D: "Fat and Happy", The New York Times Book Review, June 27, 2004. Accessed February 28, 2008.

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