Biography
Born in Marple, near Stockport, Cheshire, Cooper left school at age 15. He became engaged at 16 to a teacher four years older than he was, and married her three years later. He worked as a labourer, then civil servant, and later in 1944 joined the Merchant Navy. After World War II, he trained as a teacher, and began to publish poetry, then short stories, then novels. Deadly Image, the first novel to appear under his own name, was completed in 1957 and published in 1958 in the US.. (The novel was republished in a variant form under its better-known title The Uncertain Midnight later in 1958 in the UK). The Uncertain Midnight was adapted without authorisation for Swiss Television in 1969. His 1956 short story, The Brain Child, was adapted as the movie The Invisible Boy (1957) which featured the return of Robby the Robot from Forbidden Planet.
Cooper reviewed science fiction for the Sunday Times from 1967 until his death in 1982.
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