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Anderson Cooper Timeline

Anderson Cooper born to designer Gloria Vanderbilt and author Wyatt Emory Cooper. Cooper's father, Wyatt Cooper, dies after suffering several heart attacks. Cooper's brother, Carter Vanderbilt Cooper, a Princeton graduate, commits suicide at the age of 23 by jumping from the terrace of Gloria Vanderbilt's Manhattan apartment. Gloria believes his suicide was the result of a psychotic episode induced by the allergy drug, Proventil. Graduates from Yale University with a BA in Political Science Begins working as a fact checker for Channel One, a news program made to air in classrooms. Moves to Vietnam to study Vietnamese at the University of Hanoi. At the age of 28, signs with ABC News and becomes their youngest correspondent. Becomes permanent anchor of World News Now. Leaves World News Now to host ABC's reality show, The Mole. Begins work as an anchor alongside Paula Zahn on CNN's "American Morning with Paula Zahn". CNN launches Anderson Cooper 360°. Cooper makes Vanity Fair's international best-dressed list, alongside male celebrities like Jude Law and George Clooney. Cooper's agent, Luke Janklow, announces that Cooper has signed a $1 million book deal with HarperCollins to publish his memoir. Janklow says the book will “deal with the last year of [Cooper’s] life as a journalist and human being in Sri Lanka, Africa, Iraq and Louisiana/Mississippi.”