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Anderson Cooper
By Lily Allder
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Biography

• Born on June 3, 1967 in New York City
• Younger son of the writer Wyatt Emory Cooper and
  the artist, designer, writer, and heiress Gloria
  Vanderbilt, granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt
  II of the prominent Vanderbilt Family of New
  York.
• As a baby, Cooper was photographed to be in
  Harpers Bazaar.
• At the age of three, he was a guest on The
  Tonight Show when he appeared with his mother.
• From the age of 10 to 13, he modeled with Ford
  Models and for Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein and
  Macys.
• Father died on January 5, 1978.
• At the age of 17, Cooper went to Southern Africa
  in a 13-ton British Army truck, and contracted
  Malaria, and was hospitalized in Kenya.

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Biography Cont.

• Coopers older brother committed suicide on July
  22, 1988 at the age of 23.
• Carters suicide is what sparked Cooper to become
  a journalist.
• Cooper graduated from The Dalton School in 1985.
• To continue his education, he attended Yale
  University, then resided in Trumbull College.
• He studied Political Science and International
  Relations.
• Graduated in 1989.
• In college, spent two summers as an intern at the
  Central Intelligence Agency.
• After first correspondence work, Cooper went to
  live in Vietnam for a year and studied
  Vietnamese, but he forgot how to speak it.

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Career

• In 1992, Cooper was a fact checker for the news
  show, Channel 1 which appears in junior high and
  high school classrooms.
• After trying to gain entry-level employment with
  ABC, and failing, Cooper had a friend make him a
  fake press pass. He then went into Burma and met
  with students fighting the Burmese government.
• He was able to sell his homemade news segments to
  Channel 1.
• After returning from Vietnam, he continued
  reporting on war torn areas in the world, like
  Somalia, Bosnia and Rwanda.
• Slowly, Cooper was getting too used to the
  violent scenes in these countries, and he decided
  he would report on lighter news stories.
• In 1995, Cooper became a correspondent for ABC
  news.
• Eventually, he rose to the position of co-anchor
  on its over night World News Now program.
• In 2000, he became the host of the reality show,
  The Mole.

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Career Cont.

• After The Moles second season, he went to CNN to
  broadcast.
• He covered many important stories in 2005.
• In October of 2007, he began hosting the
  documentary, Planet in Peril with Sanjay Gupta
  and Jeff Corwin on CNN.
• In 2008, he, Gupta and Lisa Ling did a sequel,
  Planet in Peril Battle Lines.
• In 2008, he also started hosting CNN Heroes An
  All Star Tribute.

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Known For

• In 2005, Cooper covered some very important
  stories about topics such as the Tsunami Damage
  in Sri Lanka, the Cedar Revolution in Beirut,
  Lebanon the death of Pope John Paul II, the
  royal wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla
  Parker Bowles, and the Niger famine from Maradi.

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Sources

• http//www.artsjournal.com/man/archives20050301.sh
  tml97980
• http//nymag.com/nymetro/news/features/14301/index
  1.html
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anderson_Cooper

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