He contracted malaria on the trip and was hospitalized in Kenya. At age 17, after graduating from Dalton a semester early, Cooper traveled around Africa for several months on a "survival trip". I think when you experience any kind of loss, especially the kind I did, you have questions about survival: Why do some people thrive in situations that others can't tolerate? Would I be able to survive and get on in the world on my own?Ĭooper attended the Dalton School, a private co-educational day school on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Loss is a theme that I think a lot about, and it's something in my work that I dwell on. Carter's suicide sparked Anderson's interest in journalism: Gloria Vanderbilt later wrote about her son's death in the book A Mother's Story, in which she expressed her belief that the suicide was caused by a psychotic episode induced by an allergy to the anti- asthma prescription drug salbutamol. When Cooper was 21, his older brother, Carter Vanderbilt Cooper, committed suicide on July 22, 1988, at age 23, by jumping from the 14th-floor terrace of Vanderbilt's New York City penthouse apartment. how he would have wanted me to live my life and the choices he would have wanted me to make. Cooper considers his father's book Families to be "sort of a guide on.
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Wyatt experienced a series of heart attacks while undergoing open-heart surgery, and died January 5, 1978, at the age of 50. From age 10 to 13, Cooper modeled with Ford Models for Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein and Macy's. At the age of nine, he appeared on To Tell the Truth as an impostor. At the age of three, Cooper was a guest on The Tonight Show on September 17, 1970, appearing with his mother. As a baby, he was photographed by Diane Arbus for Harper's Bazaar. He is also a third cousin, once removed, of actor Timothy Olyphant.Ĭooper's media experience began early. Through Reginald, he is a second cousin, once removed, of screenwriter James Vanderbilt. Gloria Morgan was a granddaughter of American Civil War brevet Major General Hugh Judson Kilpatrick, who was with General William Tecumseh Sherman on his march through Georgia, and of the Major General's Chilean wife, Luisa Fernandez de Valdivieso. In 2014, Cooper appeared in Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s Finding Your Roots, where he learned of an ancestor, Burwell Boykin, who was a slave owner from the southern United States.
1952), from Gloria's ten-year marriage to conductor Leopold Stokowski. He has two older half-brothers, Leopold Stanislaus "Stan" Stokowski (b. His maternal grandparents were millionaire equestrian Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt of the Vanderbilt family and socialite Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, and Reginald's patrilineal great-grandfather was business magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, who founded the prominent Vanderbilt shipping and railroad fortune. In 2016, Cooper became the first openly LGBT person to moderate a presidential debate, and he has received several GLAAD Media Awards.Ĭooper was born in Manhattan, New York City, the younger son of writer Wyatt Emory Cooper and artist Gloria Vanderbilt. A member of the Vanderbilt family, he came out as gay in 2012, becoming "the most prominent openly gay journalist on American television". From September 2011 to May 2013, he also served as the host of his own syndicated daytime talk show, Anderson Live.Ĭooper has won 18 Emmy Awards and two Peabody Awards, as well as an Edward Murrow Award from the Overseas Press Club in 2011. For his coverage of the 2010 Haiti earthquake, Cooper received a National Order of Honour and Merit, the highest honor granted by the Haitian government. He developed a reputation for his on-the-ground reporting of breaking news events, with his coverage of Hurricane Katrina causing his popularity to sharply increase. In 2001, Cooper joined CNN, where he was given his own show, Anderson Cooper 360°, in 2003 he has remained the show's host since. Cooper was hired by ABC News as a correspondent in 1995, but he soon took more jobs throughout the network, working for a short time as a co-anchor, reality game show host, and fill-in morning talk show host. After graduating from Yale University with a Bachelor of Arts in 1989, he began traveling the world, shooting footage of war-torn regions for Channel One News. In addition to his duties at CNN, Cooper serves as a correspondent for 60 Minutes on CBS News. Anderson Hays Cooper (born June 3, 1967) is an American broadcast journalist and political commentator currently anchoring the CNN news broadcast show Anderson Cooper 360°.
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