Credits to: http://en.wikipedia.

org/ Anderson Cooper From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Anderson cooper) Page semi-protected Anderson Cooper Anderson Cooper at Tulane University.jpg Cooper in 2010. Born Anderson Hays Cooper June 3, 1967 (age 46) New York City, New York, U.S. Education Yale University (BA) Occupation Broadcast journalist Author Talk show host Game show host Years active 1990 present Notable credit(s) World News Now co-anchor (1999 2000) American Morning anchor (2002) Anderson Cooper 360 anchor (2003 present) Anderson Live host (2011 2013) Partner(s) Benjamin Maisani[1] Relatives Gloria Vanderbilt (mother) Wyatt Emory Cooper (father) Anderson Hays Cooper (born June 3, 1967) is an American journalist, author, and television personality. He is the primary anchor of the CNN news show Anderson C ooper 360. The program is normally broadcast live from a New York City studio; ho wever, Cooper often broadcasts live on location for breaking news stories. From September 2011 to May 2013, he also served as host of his own eponymous syndicat ed daytime talk show, Anderson Live.[2] Early life Cooper was born on June 3, 1967,[3] in New York City, the younger son of the wri ter Wyatt Emory Cooper and the artist, designer, writer, and heiress Gloria Vand erbilt. His maternal grandparents were millionaire equestrian Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt and socialite Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, and his maternal great-great -great-grandfather was Cornelius Vanderbilt of the prominent Vanderbilt shipping and railroad fortune.[4] He is also a descendant, through his mother, of Civil War brevet Major General Hugh Judson Kilpatrick, who was with General William T. Sherman on his march through Georgia. Cooper's media experience began early. As a baby, he was photographed by Diane A rbus for Harper's Bazaar.[5][6] At the age of three, Cooper was a guest on The T onight Show on September 17, 1970, appearing with his mother.[7] At the age of n ine, he appeared on To Tell the Truth as an impostor.[8] From age 10 to 13 Coope r modeled with Ford Models for Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein and Macy's.[9] Cooper's father suffered a series of heart attacks while undergoing open-heart s urgery, and died January 5, 1978, at the age of 50. Cooper considers his father' s book Families to be "sort of a guide on...how he would have wanted me to live my life and the choices he would have wanted me to make. And so I feel very conn ected to him."[9] Cooper's 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. Gloria Vanderbilt later wrote about her son's death i n the book A Mother's Story, in which she expresses her belief that the suicide was caused by a psychotic episode induced by an allergy to the anti-asthma presc ription drug salbutamol. Anderson cites Carter's suicide for sparking his intere st in journalism. "Loss is a theme that I think a lot about, and it's something in my work that I dwell on. I think when you experience any kind of loss, especi

ally the kind I did, you have questions about survival: Why do some people thriv e in situations that others can t tolerate? Would I be able to survive and get on in the world on my own?"[9]