Bernard Cooper (born October 3, 1951) is an American novelist, essayist and short story writer.
[2] Cooper has taught at the California Institute of the Arts and Bennington College, and in 2014 he served as the Bedell Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa's nonfiction writing program.
[4] When Cooper was 28 years old, he received an itemized bill, written by his father, in the form of an official document, outlining the costs associated with raising him, with a mandate for a $2 million repayment, as told in his book, The Bill From My Father.
[7] He was a teacher at the UCLA Extension Writers' Program at Antioch University Los Angeles.
[9] In 2009, Cooper held the 'Mary Routt Chair of Writing' at Scripps College, where he taught for a semester.