Jeremy Cooper is a writer and art historian. He is the author of several novels and works of non-fiction, including studies of young British artists in the 1990s, [1] [2] scholarship on Victorian and Edwardian design, and the British Museum's 2019 catalogue of artists' postcards. [3] In 2018, he won the first Fitzcarraldo Editions Novel Prize for Ash before Oak. [4] Cooper's work has been covered by The New York Review of Books , [1] The Times Literary Supplement , [5] The British Film Institute, [6] Bookforum , [7] Literary Hub , [8] and others. [9] [10] In The New Yorker , National Book Award-winning writer Sigrid Nunez said of Cooper's book Brian, "I can think of no finer exploration of what can happen when a person is fully open and attentive to art, and how a shared passion for art can connect people to one another." [11]
Cooper was born in Dorset and lives in Somerset. [12] He worked for Sotheby's and as Mohamed Al-Fayed's private art consultant before opening his own gallery in Bloomsbury. He appeared in the first twenty-four episodes of the BBC's Antiques Roadshow and was co-presenter of Radio 4's The Week's Antiques. [13] He has written for The Sunday Times , The Observer and The Sunday Telegraph . [14] He is a collector of historic postcard work by Dieter Roth, Richard Hamilton, Carl Andre, Claes Oldenburg and many others. [13]