Kenneth J. Copper began his stellar professional newspaper career, which included winning a Pulitzer Prize with the Boston Globe, as a St. Louis American intern.
Cooper graduated from Washington University in St. Louis in 1977 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and has been a journalist for nearly half a century, specializing in government, politics, and social policy, at the Washington Post, Boston Globe, Knight Ridder, GBH News, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and The American.
In 1984, Cooper, then 28, shared a Pulitzer for special local reporting for “The Race Factor,” a Boston Globe series that examined institutional racism in Boston.
The Washington University Libraries recently acquired the Kenneth J. Cooper Papers, an archival collection of materials related to his life and work. Cooper retired in 2022.
“I’m grateful and proud that my alma mater has agreed to archive my papers,” Cooper shared with Sonya Rooney, university archivist.
