Know Us a Little
About The Author
compassion
Keith Cooper is a native of Anchorage, Alaska. After
graduating from West Point, he served in the Army
Infantry for 26 years where he commanded from
platoon to brigade level receiving the Distinguished
Service Medal, Bronze Star, and three-time recipient
of the Legion of Merit. Following Keith’s military
career, he went to work in the aerospace and defense
sectors, working for three large defense companies
before starting his own company, One Core
Consultants. Keith’s interests revolve around learning,
traveling, hiking, volunteering, and writing. He has
flown over eighty-five missions in support of those
needing cancer treatment. He is also an animal lover
and has personally flown over a hundred animals from
shelters to foster and permanent homes. He recently
completed the Camino Frances pilgrimage, a 500 mile
walk from France across the Pyrenees to Santiago,
Spain. He is the father of three wonderful kids and
splits his time between Alaska and Colorado.
Vulnerability
best describe this new author.
Where it Started, circa 1968, our Trailer on long lake. Dad Mom and I.
Values
Keith is on a journey from mind to heart, as he describes it, the longest eighteen inches in the world. A person who now believes it’s more important to be kind than right. You see this transition in his writings about race, love, God, and nature in his book Taking the Mask Off. You will see the same determination and focus in his upcoming fiction novel about a Russian attack on Alaska, The Sixteenth Republic, coming out late this year, in which he focuses on those whose kindness put them in second place in our society, only to be the ones in the end who save civilization.
Taking the Mask Off follows the footsteps of the belief Mother Teresa ingrained in all of us: “We tend to draw the circle of our family too small.” Keith has opened his family to you. Let’s stop judging and work together to learn from one another so we can all get better.
