About

About the Writer

Howard M. Cooper (H.M. Cooper) lives in Toronto, Canada. He began a career as an actor/writer with various theatre companies across the country from Newfoundland to Vancouver. He subsequently completed a M.A. in the history and theory of psychology from York University and later a Bachelor of Education degree from the University of Toronto.

Howard has worked at many different jobs over the years: taxi driver, pizza delivery, personnel consultant, shoe salesman, driving instructor, actor, director, teacher and writer. In Vancouver, he was the writer for Canadian Theatre of the Deaf and Touchstone Theatre. He was an actor/writer for well known theatres in Toronto and through Ontario, often for Theatre Passse Muraille. For the past number of years he has worked part-time as a teacher, mostly at small private schools, and as a writer/ghostwriter mostly for Holocaust survivors. He has published three books, all with POD publishers: Daughters of the Teardrop Sea (Publish America, 2004), Something Lyrical for the Night (American Book Publishing, 2005), and Bar Kochba (with Ernest Weiss) (Publish America, 2008),