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14 Facts About Deborah Copaken

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Deborah Elizabeth Copaken was born on 1966 and is an American author and photojournalist.

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Deborah Copaken's father was a White House Fellow and lawyer.

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Deborah Copaken grew up in Maryland, first in Adelphi, and then from 1970 in Potomac.

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Deborah Copaken first worked as a producer at Day One in ABC News, where she received an Emmy, then in Dateline NBC.

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Deborah Copaken's second novel, The Red Book, was a New York Times bestseller.

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Deborah Copaken has written several articles for The New Yorker, The New York Times, Observer, The Atlantic, Business Insider, The Nation and others.

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Deborah Copaken has performed and curated live storytelling for The Moth, Afterbirth, the Six Word Memoir series, Women of Letters, and Words and Music.

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Deborah Copaken has ventured into screenwriting, and it was reported that she was adapting Shutterbabe as a TV series for NBC in 2014.

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Deborah Copaken was a consultant on Darren Star's Younger and is currently a staff writer on his new show Emily in Paris.

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Deborah Copaken has been interviewed by several news program including The Today Show and Good Morning America.

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Deborah Copaken collaborated with Tommy Siegel of Jukebox the Ghost.

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Deborah Copaken lived in Paris and Moscow before moving to New York City in 1992.

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Deborah Copaken became engaged to and married Paul Kogan in 1993.

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Deborah Copaken wrote in The Atlantic, 30 years after the incident, that she had recently written to her assailant and that the assailant had called and apologized to her.