Ĭooper returned to New York in 1987, where he worked on Frisk and several projects including co-curating an exhibit with Richard Hawkins entitled AGAINST NATURE: A Group Show of Work by Homosexual Men, which was open at the LACE in 1988. During this time, he supported himself financially by writing for American magazines such as The Advocate, Art in America, and Artforum, the later of which eventually took him on as a regular. The book later won the very first Ferro-Grumley Award for gay literature. To get into the right headspace to write Closer, Cooper regularly took meth. He left New York in 1985 to follow a boyfriend to Amsterdam, where he finished Closer, the first book in the George Miles Cycle and Cooper's first novel.
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Shortly after, he published his first novella, Safe, and became serious about writing the five-book series he had been planning since he was fifteen. He held this position until 1983, when he moved to New York City. In 1979, he began working as the Director of Programming at the Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, where he continued to produce Little Caesar Magazine. Tenderness of Wolves was nominated for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize the same year. Cooper published his first book of poetry, Idols, in 1979 and his second, Tenderness of the Wolves, in 1981. In 1978, he started Little Caesar Press, which would go on to help establish artists such as Amy Gerstler, Peter Schjeldahl, and Elaine Equi. Career Ĭooper started Little Caesar Magazine in 1976 the punk zine, which ran for 12 issues between 19, featured multimedia contributions from Andy Warhol, David Wojnarowicz, Debbie Harry, Bob Flanagan, and Toby Ross. In 1976, Cooper moved to London for a brief period. Punk subculture was a major part of his teenage years. He began planning out a five-book series that would later become The George Miles Cycle. Though he had started writing surreal stories at age 12, he became a more focused writer at 15 and tried to imitate the writing styles of Arthur Rimbaud and de Sade. He was also inspired by French novelists/directors such as Jean Cocteau, Alain Robbe-Grillet, and Marguerite Duras. Ĭooper began reading French literature at 15 and was drawn to Marquis de Sade in particular for his risqué depictions of libertine sex. He attended Pasadena City College and Pitzer College. Cooper attended public schools before he started attending Flintridge Preparatory School in high school he was expelled in 11th grade. Cooper's parents divorced when he was in his early teens. One of his brothers, Richard, was named after Nixon. His parents were politically conservative, with his father acting as an advisor to several presidents, including Richard Nixon, with whom he cultivated a close friendship. Cooper was born in Pasadena, California and raised in Arcadia, the son of Clifford Cooper, a self-made businessman who was one of the early designers of parts for unmanned space expeditions.