The Life and Literary Philosophy of David Foster Wallace," won Harvard's $4,000 Hoopes Prize, awarded annually for outstanding scholarly work or research by students.
[3] Before becoming an author, Cooper worked as a research assistant, helped make a documentary about giving socks to homeless youth, and traveled to France for a job as a paralegal.
[1] After returning to the U.S., she became a member of The New Yorker′s editorial staff, where she contributed 19 restaurant and bar reviews to the "Goings On About Town" section published between July 2015 and May 2017,[4] and served as assistant to the magazine's editor, David Remnick.
The book grew out of a collaborative art project, for which Cooper created a Tumblr blog in 2009[6] that invited strangers to fill out a blank map of Manhattan with their own memories and submit it for consideration.
"[7] Cooper was struck by the ambiguity of keeping human remains close as suggesting either respectful remembrance or attempted cover-up.