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The Hon. Alice Clare Antonia Opportune Cooper Beevor (born 22 April 1953) is a British writer known as Artemis Cooper.

Known as Artemis, a nickname which honours her paternal grandmother, she is the only daughter of the 2nd Viscount Norwich and his first wife, the former Anne Clifford, and a granddaughter of the British society figure Lady Diana Cooper. She has a brother, the Hon. Jason Charles Duff Bede Cooper, and a half-sister, Allegra Huston, the only child of Lord Norwich and Enrica Soma Huston, the estranged wife of American film director John Huston.

In 1986, she married fellow writer and historian Antony Beevor and they have two children.

Her books include The Authorized Biography of Elizabeth David, Paris After the Liberation, 1944-1949 (written with her husband, Antony Beevor), The Letters of Evelyn Waugh and Diana Cooper (which she edited) and The Letters of Duff and Diana Cooper,1913-1950 (which she also edited), A Child's Fight for Life (a memoir of her daughter's childhood illness), and Cairo in the War, 1939-1945.

In 2004 she was known to be writing the biography of Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor Literary legend learning to type at 92 | News | guardian.co.uk Books

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