| Chloe Cooper Jones | |
| Birth Place: | Bangkok, Thailand |
| Nationality: | American |
| Education: | BA, Emerson College MD and PhD, University of Kansas PhD, City University of New York |
| Notable Works: | Easy Beauty |
Chloé Cooper Jones is a Thailand-born American memoirist, academic, and journalist.[1] Her work has appeared in publications including the New York Times, GQ, The Verge, VICE, Bookforum, New York Magazine and The Believer. [2]
Jones was born in Bangkok, Thailand and grew up in Tonganoxie and Lawrence, Kansas. She earned a bachelor's degree at Emerson College and a master's degree and doctorate from the University of Kansas. She was awarded a second PhD at City University of New York Graduate Center.[3] [4]
In 2020, Jones was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in feature writing for her profile of Ramsey Orta, the man who filmed the NYPD’s killing of Eric Garner. The profile appeared in The Verge.[5] She’s also the recipient of the 2020 Whiting Foundation Creative Nonfiction Grant,[6] and a 2021 Howard Foundation Grant from Brown University,[7] both for Easy Beauty.
She was born with sacral agenesis, a congenital disease that impacts her walk and shortens her stature.[8] Jones' memoir, Easy Beauty, which is about her quest to both understand beauty and to challenge our assumptions and standards of it, was published by Avid Reader/Simon & Schuster in April 2022.[9] A review in Ms.Magazine described Easy Beauty as "a memoir of motherhood and disability, of bodily presence and difference depicted by talent that is both staggering and undeniable."[10] It was named a best book of the year by publications including The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Time, Publishers Weekly, Booklist and The New York Times.[11] Jones was a finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Memoir or Autobiography. [12]