Helene Cooper--her memoir & an editorial

Helene Cooper grew up in Liberia and came to the US as a refugee from the civil war that started there in 1980. She has stayed in the US although she has travelled back to Africa and to many other places in her work as a journalist. She is currrently the White House Correspondent for The New York Times and gets to ask President Obama questions--he called on her at his first Press Conference of his Administration.
Here is an opinion/editorial that she wrote when she went back to African in 2006. The memoir, The House on Sugar Beach which she published in 2008 is about the years from 1973-2003. Here is a link to two videos of her being interviewed about this book by Steve Clemons. In this article she gives you more background about herself and this book.