Artemis Cooper is the author, with Antony Beevor, of the highly acclaimed Paris After the Liberation.`She has edited two collections of letters; A Durable Fire: The Letters of Duff and Diana Cooper; and Mr Wu and Mrs Stitch: The Letters of Evelyn Waugh and Diana Cooper. She is married to Antony Beevor and their daughter's childhood illness is the subject of her book Watching in the Dark. They have two children.
