Helene Cooper - Helene Cooper is a Liberian-born American journalist who has been the diplomatic correspondent for The New York Times, based in Washington.
In 2008, she published a memoir entitled The House at Sugar Beach. The memoir largely concerns the Liberian coup of 1980 and its effect on Cooper's family, socially and politically-elite descendants of American freed slaves who colonized the country in the 19th century.
Helene Cooper talks about her memoir House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood.
This world-renowned journalist presents a haunting memoir of her war-torn Liberian childhood and her return to her native country. 20 years after her family's flight, she seeks to reunite with the foster sister they left behind- Book Passage
Helene Cooper is such a brave woman. Her childhood and leaving war-torn Liberia. Then going back to Liberia. And seeing what is left of her home and childhood friends must have been terribly hard for her. She is a one courageous woman. I am really looking forward to reading her book.