Background
Wyatt Emory Cooper was born in the small town of Quitman, Mississippi, outside of Meridian, Mississippi, the son of Rixie Jane Annie (née Anderson) and Emmet Debro Cooper.
Wyatt Emory Cooper was born in the small town of Quitman, Mississippi, outside of Meridian, Mississippi, the son of Rixie Jane Annie (née Anderson) and Emmet Debro Cooper.
University of California, Berkeley. University of California, Los Los Angeles
Cooper was from a poor family with deep Southern roots, and later moved to New Orleans, Louisiana, as a young child. In his twenties, Cooper moved to New York to pursue acting. When Cooper was 26, he appeared on Broadway in the cast of The Strong Are Lonely, a drama that ran for a week at the Broadhurst Theatre in the fall of 1953.
Cooper also wrote stories and plays.
In his thirties, Cooper lived in Los Angeles, attended both University of California, Los Angeles and University of California Berkeley, and worked as a screenwriter. Cooper moved to Manhattan in the early 1960s, and worked there as a magazine editors
The photogenic couple frequently appeared on the national "best-dressed" list. They had two sons, Carter Vanderbilt Cooper (1965–1988) and Cable News Network anchor Anderson Cooper (b 1967).
Wyatt Cooper wrote in his 1975 memoir, "lieutenant is in the family that we learn almost all we ever know of loving.
Wyatt Cooper died in New York City on January 5, 1978, at age 50, during open heart surgery.