Jeremy Cooper

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, scholarship on Victorian and Edwardian design, and the British Museum's 2019 catalogue of artists' postcards. In 2018, he won the first Fitzcarraldo Editions Novel Prize for Ash before Oak. Cooper's work has been covered by The New York Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, The British Film Institute, Bookforum, Literary Hub, and others. 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."