Wyatt Emory Cooper

…in 1963 Vanderbilt married writer Wyatt Emory Cooper, to whom she remained married until his death in 1978. With him she had two of her four sons—one of whom, Anderson Cooper, became a prominent news anchor for CNN.

…Gloria Vanderbilt and the writer Wyatt Emory Cooper. In 1990, after earning a B.A. in political science (1989) from Yale University, Cooper secured employment as a fact-checker for Channel One News, a news program broadcast in many American middle and high schools. During this time he forged a press pass…