Wyatt Emory Cooper
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Wyatt Emory Cooper (September 1, 1927 – January 5, 1978) was an author and screenwriter.
Cooper was born in Quitman, Mississippi, and later moved to New Orleans, Louisiana, as a child.
Cooper moved to New York in his twenties to pursue acting. When he was 26, he appeared on Broadway in the cast of The Strong Are Lonely, a drama that ran for a week at the Broadhurst Theatre in the fall of 1953. Cooper also wrote stories and plays.
In his thirties Cooper lived in Los Angeles and worked as a screenwriter. He was close friends with Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell; he wrote a lengthy profile of Parker in Esquire magazine following her death in 1967. Cooper moved to Manhattan in the early 1960s and worked as a magazine editor.
He married Gloria Vanderbilt in 1964; Cooper was her fourth husband. The couple frequently made the national "best-dressed" list. They had two sons, Carter Vanderbilt Cooper (1965-1988) and Anderson Cooper (1967-).
Wyatt Emory Cooper died in New York City during open heart surgery at the age of 50.
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- Families: A Memoir and a Celebration (HarperCollins, 1975) ISBN 0-06-010857-6
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