Becky Cooper is a former New Yorker writer, assistant to David Remnick, Adam Gopnik and D.T. Max, producer for the New Yorker Radio Hour. Currently, she is artist-in-residence at Harvard University, as well as Senior Fellow at Brandeis's Schuster Institute for Investigative Reporting. Her undergraduate thesis, a literary biography of David Foster Wallace, won Harvard's Hoopes Prize, the highest undergraduate award for research and writing. In 2013, she published Mapping Manhattan- A Love and Sometimes Hate Story in Maps by 75 New Yorkers (Abrams), which is currently in its fifth printing.
A brilliant and extraordinary book.
*Philippe Sands*
Exhilarating ... Becky Cooper masterfully uncovers the story of
Harvard undergrad Jane Britton
*Vogue*
Exhilarating and seductive ... Haunting, fascinating, and
surprising. Cooper will keep you riveted.
Ambitious ... A highly sophisticated investigation of a cold case
mixed with elements of memoir and trendy cultural criticism.
*Spectator*
This is an astonishing book: circuitous yet taut with suspense,
layered yet gripping. Cooper is one hell of a detective, chasing a
long-buried murder mystery not only to the victim and her killer,
but to the very core of how we understand one another. Most
remarkable is how contemporary and vital every bit of questioning
Cooper does here feels. Jane Britton died decades ago, but in
Cooper's hands, Britton's tragic murder teaches us about ourselves
and the dangers of the institutions we uphold.
*Alex Marzano-Lesnevich, author of THE FACT OF A BODY*
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