Deborah Copaken Kogan Books in Order

Deborah Copaken Kogan recounts her early career photographing wars and upheavals after moving to Paris in 1988. Her experiences across countries intersect with difficult relationships and encounters with sexism and violence, challenging her youthful attraction to danger.

A resurfacing memory drives Elizabeth Burns to investigate her childhood friend April's disappearance. As she reconstructs the life of April's troubled mother, Elizabeth confronts questions about her own marriage, dissatisfaction, and what being a wife and mother demands.

In eleven linked autobiographical pieces, Deborah Copaken Kogan describes raising three children while she and her husband work in New York City. Childbirth, illness, financial pressures, and other parents create comic situations that also expose her own failings.

Four former Harvard roommates reunite twenty years after graduation, each facing disappointments concealed by their polished alumni reports. Their weekend together brings families, professional setbacks, private desires, and unresolved relationships into collision, challenging the stories they tell about their lives.

Twenty-six brief lessons address the challenges of entering adult life, from managing anger to getting enough sleep. Personal experience, humor and photographs of alphabet letters shape advice about making choices, handling setbacks and learning to live independently.

An illustrated alphabet of short essays offers advice on raising children while preserving a life beyond parenthood. Topics include praise, pets, independence and romance, encouraging parents to balance practical guidance with compassion, humor and trust in their children.

Deborah Copaken recounts serious illnesses alongside divorce, solo parenting and a precarious struggle to earn a living. Her bodily crises expose the pressures of healthcare costs, harassment and sexism, revealing how easily a middle-class life can lose its safety net.