Deborah Elizabeth Copaken (born 1966) is an American author and photojournalist. Early life and education Copaken was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the daughter of Marjorie Ann (née Schwartz) and Richard Daniel Copaken. Her father was a White House Fellow and lawyer. She grew up in Maryland, first in Adelphi, and then from 1970 in Potomac. She has three siblings. She graduated from Harvard University in 1988. Career Prior to beginning a writing career, Copaken was a war photographer from 1988 to 1992, and a television producer at ABC and NBC from 1992 to 1998. For the former, she was based in Paris and Moscow, while shooting assignments on conflicts in Zimbabwe, Afghanistan, Romania, Pakistan, Israel, Soviet Union and other places. She first worked as a producer at Day One in ABC News, where she received an Emmy, then in Dateline NBC. In 2001, she published a memoir of her experiences in war photojournalism, Shutterbabe. Her first novel Between Here and April was published in 2008 and won the November Elle Reader's Prize. In 2009, she released a book of comic essays, Hell is Other Parents, some of which appeared in the New Yorker and The New York Times. Her second novel, The Red Book (Hyperion/Voice, 2012), was a New York Times bestseller. The book was long-listed for the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction. In 2016 and 2017, she released two nonfiction books, The ABCs of Adulthood and The ABCs of Parenthood, in collaboration with illustrator Randy Polumbo. She has written several articles for The New Yorker, The New York Times, Observer, The Atlantic, Business Insider, The Nation and others. She has performed and curated live storytelling for The Moth, Afterbirth, the Six Word Memoir series, Women of Letters, and Words and Music. She has also ventured into screenwriting, and it was reported that she was adapting Shutterbabe as a TV series for NBC in 2014. She was a consultant on Darren Star's Younger and is currently a staff writer on his new show Emily in Paris. She has been interviewed by several news program including The Today Show and Good Morning America. In 2013, Copaken wrote an essay for The Nation detailing sexism she has encountered and observed in her career. In November 2017 in Oprah.com, she published a 3,500-word account of her supracervical hysterectomy, adenomyosis and trachelectomy, and her subsequent recovery in Nepal. In July 2018 in The Atlantic,