Helene Cooper

Helene Cooper is the Pulitzer Prize-winning Pentagon correspondent for The New York Times , having previously served as White House Correspondent, diplomatic correspondent, and the assistant editorial page editor. Prior to moving to the Times , Helene spent twelve years as a reporter and foreign correspondent at The Wall Street Journal . She is the author of the bestselling memoir, The House at Sugar Beach , and Madame President , a biography of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. She was born in Monrovia,...See more

Helene Cooper is the Pulitzer Prize-winning Pentagon correspondent for The New York Times , having previously served as White House Correspondent, diplomatic correspondent, and the assistant editorial page editor. Prior to moving to the Times , Helene spent twelve years as a reporter and foreign correspondent at The Wall Street Journal . She is the author of the bestselling memoir, The House at Sugar Beach , and Madame President , a biography of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. She was born in Monrovia, Liberia, and lives in the Washington, DC area. See less