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She is also a novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and performer. Her novel ''[[Between Here and April]]''<ref>http://www.amazon.com/dp/1565125622</ref> was published in 2008 and won the November ''[[Elle (magazine)|Elle]]'' Reader's Prize,<ref>http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:T_baIpheXSsJ:www.judithmarks-white.com/PDF/Elle.pdf+Elle+Readers+prize+copaken&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a</ref> and her book of comic essays, ''[[Hell is Other Parents]]'',<ref>http://www.amazon.com/dp/1401340814</ref> some of which appeared in the ''[[The New Yorker|New Yorker]]''<ref>http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/03/05/070305fa_fact_kogan</ref> and the ''[[New York Times]]'',<ref>{{cite news| url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D06E1D9133FF936A25757C0A9619C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1 | work=The New York Times | title=MODERN LOVE; La Vie en Rose, the Takeout Version | date=2007-04-15 | accessdate=2010-05-01}}</ref> was published in August 2009. Her second novel, [http://www.amazon.com/The-Red-Book-ebook/dp/B007250EN4/ref=tmm_kin_title_0 The Red Book], published by Hyperion/VOICE in April 2012, was a [http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/2012-04-22/e-book-fiction/list.html New York Times bestseller]. She has performed and curated live storytelling for [[The Moth]];<ref>http://store.themoth.org/</ref> she has also performed on the New York stage with Afterbirth,<ref>http://daniklein.blogspot.com/</ref> the Six Word Memoir series, and at a 20th anniversary tribute to [[Anita Hill]] in 2011, curated by playwright [[Eve Ensler]], for whom she also penned a monologue that was performed in Ensler's 2006 production, "Until the Violence Stops."
She is also a novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and performer. Her novel ''[[Between Here and April]]''<ref>http://www.amazon.com/dp/1565125622</ref> was published in 2008 and won the November ''[[Elle (magazine)|Elle]]'' Reader's Prize,<ref>http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:T_baIpheXSsJ:www.judithmarks-white.com/PDF/Elle.pdf+Elle+Readers+prize+copaken&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a</ref> and her book of comic essays, ''[[Hell is Other Parents]]'',<ref>http://www.amazon.com/dp/1401340814</ref> some of which appeared in the ''[[The New Yorker|New Yorker]]''<ref>http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/03/05/070305fa_fact_kogan</ref> and the ''[[New York Times]]'',<ref>{{cite news| url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D06E1D9133FF936A25757C0A9619C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1 | work=The New York Times | title=MODERN LOVE; La Vie en Rose, the Takeout Version | date=2007-04-15 | accessdate=2010-05-01}}</ref> was published in August 2009. Her second novel, [http://www.amazon.com/The-Red-Book-ebook/dp/B007250EN4/ref=tmm_kin_title_0 The Red Book], published by Hyperion/VOICE in April 2012, was a [http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/2012-04-22/e-book-fiction/list.html New York Times bestseller]. She has performed and curated live storytelling for [[The Moth]];<ref>http://store.themoth.org/</ref> she has also performed on the New York stage with Afterbirth,<ref>http://daniklein.blogspot.com/</ref> the Six Word Memoir series, and at a 20th anniversary tribute to [[Anita Hill]] in 2011, curated by playwright [[Eve Ensler]], for whom she also penned a monologue that was performed in Ensler's 2006 production, "Until the Violence Stops."

As a teenager, she had a small speaking role in the film [[Key Exchange]]<ref>http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0178528/</ref> and was an occasional columnist for [[Seventeen magazine]].

Kogan married Paul Kogan in 1993. The couple have three children. Jacob (an actor who played the title role in the 2007 film ''[[Joshua (2007 film)|Joshua]]'' and Young [[Spock]] in [[J. J. Abrams]]' 2009 [[Star Trek]]), Sasha, and Leo.<ref>http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2275042/</ref>


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Revision as of 22:56, 11 April 2013

Deborah Copaken Kogan
Born
Deborah Elizabeth Copaken

(1966-03-11) March 11, 1966 (age 58)
Boston, Massachusetts
NationalityAmerican
Known forArts and letters, photography

Deborah Copaken Kogan (born March 11, 1966[1]) is an American author and photojournalist.

Life and career

She was born Deborah Elizabeth Copaken[2] in Boston, the daughter of Marjorie Ann (née Schwartz) and Richard Daniel Copaken, who served as a White House Fellow for President Lyndon B. Johnson.[3][4][5] She grew up first in Adelphi, then Potomac, Maryland. Kogan graduated from Harvard University in 1988, then worked as a photojournalist based in Paris, France, from 1988–1992, shooting assignments in Zimbabwe, Zurich, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Israel, Romania, the Soviet Union, where she resided for most of 1991, and other places. In 1992, she moved to New York and worked for ABC, where she won an Emmy[6] for a story on the 1994 Amtrak train crash, and then at NBC during the next several years. She began writing full time in 1998.

Kogan has written a bestselling memoir entitled Shutterbabe: Adventures in Love and War. It was first published in 2001.

She is also a novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and performer. Her novel Between Here and April[7] was published in 2008 and won the November Elle Reader's Prize,[8] and her book of comic essays, Hell is Other Parents,[9] some of which appeared in the New Yorker[10] and the New York Times,[11] was published in August 2009. Her second novel, The Red Book, published by Hyperion/VOICE in April 2012, was a New York Times bestseller. She has performed and curated live storytelling for The Moth;[12] she has also performed on the New York stage with Afterbirth,[13] the Six Word Memoir series, and at a 20th anniversary tribute to Anita Hill in 2011, curated by playwright Eve Ensler, for whom she also penned a monologue that was performed in Ensler's 2006 production, "Until the Violence Stops."

References

  1. ^ Copaken Kogan, Deborah. "Facebook Fan page". Facebook. Facebook. Retrieved May 4, 2012.
  2. ^ "ENGAGEMENTS; Deborah E. Copaken, Paul M. Kogan". The New York Times. 1993-04-18. Retrieved 2010-05-01.
  3. ^ http://www.kcjc.com/20081226792/obituaries/richard-d.-copaken.html
  4. ^ "Richard Copaken Weds Marjorie Ann Schwartz". The New York Times. 1963-06-17.
  5. ^ http://www.spoke.com/info/p1m6Weq/RichardCopaken
  6. ^ http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/73182.Deborah_Copaken_Kogan
  7. ^ http://www.amazon.com/dp/1565125622
  8. ^ http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:T_baIpheXSsJ:www.judithmarks-white.com/PDF/Elle.pdf+Elle+Readers+prize+copaken&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a
  9. ^ http://www.amazon.com/dp/1401340814
  10. ^ http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/03/05/070305fa_fact_kogan
  11. ^ "MODERN LOVE; La Vie en Rose, the Takeout Version". The New York Times. 2007-04-15. Retrieved 2010-05-01.
  12. ^ http://store.themoth.org/
  13. ^ http://daniklein.blogspot.com/

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