Glenn Cooper is an accomplished American novelist, particularly known for his thriller novels. He is the author of the Will Piper/Library of the Dead series. Cooper has earned a degree in archaeology from Harvard and later went on to obtain his medical degree from Tufts University. In addition to his work as a novelist, Cooper is also a screenwriter and film producer, and runs his own production company, Lascaux Pictures.
Glenn Cooper was born in New York City and grew up in nearby White Plains. He attended White Plains High School before enrolling at Harvard University, where he graduated with honors in archaeology. He then attended Tufts University School of Medicine and completed his post-doctoral training at the New England Deaconess and the Massachusetts General Hospitals. Cooper became a board-certified specialist in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, and went on to practice medicine before transitioning to a research career in the pharmaceutical industry. He later became the Chairman and CEO of a biotechnology company in Massachusetts. Cooper's interest in movies led him to attend the graduate program in film production at Boston University. He is currently the chairman of Lascaux Media, a media company that produces thrillers and horror films.
Cooper's novels have reached bestseller lists all over the world and have been translated into 31 languages. His books have sold over six million copies as of 2014. He has had 20 scripts optioned for production but none have been produced yet. His debut novel, "The Library of the Dead," the first in a trilogy, became an international bestseller and was translated into thirty languages. All of his seven published books have become top-ten international best-sellers. He currently resides in Gilford, New Hampshire. Cooper's novels are suspenseful, intellectual, conspiratorial thrillers characterized by multiple interlacing time shifts which are often rooted in real historical events. In addition, each of his books spotlights a large philosophical theme: fate and predestination, the nature of evil, conceptions of the afterlife, resurrection, and the interface between science and faith.