Edward M. Cohen

Edward M. Cohen was an American author, playwright, and director who was born in Manhattan in 1936 and died in 2023. He studied theater at Queens College in the 1950s. His work often draws on his life as a gay man and his Jewish New York background. His story collection Before Stonewall, published by Awst Press in 2021, gathers fourteen previously published stories set mostly in New York theater circles from the 1940s to the early 1970s. His other books include the novel $250,000 and the novella A Visit to my Father with my Son.