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'''Deborah Copaken Kogan''' (born March 11, 1966<ref>{{cite web|last=Copaken Kogan|first=Deborah|title=Facebook Fan page|url=http://www.facebook.com/deborah.copaken.kogan.author/info|work=Facebook|publisher=Facebook|accessdate=May 4, 2012}}</ref>) is an American author and photojournalist.
'''Deborah Copaken Kogan''' (born March 11, 1966<ref>{{cite web|last=Copaken Kogan|first=Deborah|title=Facebook Fan page|url=http://www.facebook.com/deborah.copaken.kogan.author/info|work=Facebook|publisher=Facebook|accessdate=May 4, 2012}}</ref>) is an American author and photojournalist.


She was born '''Deborah Elizabeth Copaken'''<ref name=ref1>{{cite news| url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE3DF163CF93BA25757C0A965958260&sec=&spon= | work=The New York Times | title=ENGAGEMENTS; Deborah E. Copaken, Paul M. Kogan | date=1993-04-18 | accessdate=2010-05-01}}</ref> in [[Boston]], the daughter of Marjorie Ann (née Schwartz) and Richard Daniel Copaken, who served as a [[White House Fellows|White House Fellow]] for President Lyndon B. Johnson.<ref>http://www.kcjc.com/20081226792/obituaries/richard-d.-copaken.html</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50C11F83E581A7B93C5A8178DD85F478685F9 | work=The New York Times | title=Richard Copaken Weds Marjorie Ann Schwartz | date=1963-06-17}}</ref><ref>http://www.spoke.com/info/p1m6Weq/RichardCopaken</ref> She grew up first in [[Adelphi, Maryland|Adelphi]], then [[Potomac, Maryland|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 [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]], where she won an [[Emmy]]<ref>http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/73182.Deborah_Copaken_Kogan</ref> 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.
She was born '''Deborah Elizabeth Copaken'''<ref name=ref1>{{cite news| url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE3DF163CF93BA25757C0A965958260&sec=&spon= | work=The New York Times | title=ENGAGEMENTS; Deborah E. Copaken, Paul M. Kogan | date=1993-04-18 | accessdate=2010-05-01}}</ref> in [[Boston]], the daughter of Marjorie Ann (née Schwartz) and Richard Daniel Copaken, who served as a [[White House Fellows|White House Fellow]] for President Lyndon B. Johnson.<ref>http://www.kcjc.com/20081226792/obituaries/richard-d.-copaken.html</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50C11F83E581A7B93C5A8178DD85F478685F9 | work=The New York Times | title=Richard Copaken Weds Marjorie Ann Schwartz | date=1963-06-17}}</ref><ref>http://www.spoke.com/info/p1m6Weq/RichardCopaken</ref> In 1992, she moved to New York and worked for [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]], where she won an [[Emmy]]<ref>http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/73182.Deborah_Copaken_Kogan</ref> 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.
Kogan has written a bestselling memoir entitled ''[[Shutterbabe]]: Adventures in Love and War''. It was first published in 2001.

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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.

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] 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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