Personal Life
Cohen was born in Charleston, South Carolina and raised in Reading, Pennsylvania, in what he has called a "suburban reform Jewish household."
He was formerly married to the writer and activist Katha Pollitt, with whom he has a daughter, Sophie Pollitt-Cohen.
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