Erna, Cooper

Born in Southern California, and educated at NYU (Tisch school of the arts, dramatic writing program), UCLA and Oxford University, Erna Cooper became a scholar of French and English women's literature and film. She has published literary criticism on 20th century women writers, biographies of Willa Cather and Paul Auster for the scholarly series France and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History, and has written a book of short fiction (The Venice Apartment and Other Stories). She is now a …