Stephen Cooper (writer)

Stephen Cooper is an American editor and biographer.
Life.
He received his MFA from the University of California, Irvine and his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California.
He is a Professor of English at California State University, Long Beach, and also teaches at University of California at Los Angeles.
In addition to essays and scholarly articles, his short fiction has appeared in "The Threepenny Review", "Hot Type", "Southwest Review" and "American Fiction". He has received the N.E.A. (National Endowment of the Arts) Creative Writing Fellowship in Fiction.
"Full of Life" and "The John Fante Reader" were "Los Angeles Times" Best Books of the Year.
He lives in Los Angeles.