Biography
Cohen attended the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, where he graduated with degree in journalism in 1958. After graduation he worked as a proofreader at Time Inc. before becoming an editor for Science Digest. In 1969 he moved to upstate New York with his wife, Susan, to begin a career as a freelance children’s writer. The couple had one daughter, named Theodora.
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