Rich Cohen
| Rich Cohen | |
|---|---|
| Born |
July 30, 1968 Lake Forest, Illinois |
| Occupation | Non-fiction writer, journalist, screenplay writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Period | 1992–present |
| Notable works |
Tough Jews (1998) Monsters (2013) Vinyl (2016) |
Rich Cohen (born July 30, 1968) is an American non-fiction writer. He is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone magazines. He is co-creator, with Martin Scorsese, Mick Jagger and Terence Winter, of the HBO series Vinyl. His works have been New York Times bestsellers, New York Times Notable Books, and have been collected in the Best American Essays series. He lives in Ridgefield, Connecticut, with four sons, Aaron, Nate, Micah and Elia.
Cohen was born in Lake Forest, Illinois, and grew up in Chicago's North Shore suburb of Glencoe. He received his BA from Tulane University in 1990. His father, the negotiator Herb Cohen, grew up with the broadcaster Larry King; Cohen worked on King's CNN show for a short time after graduation. His sister, Sharon Cohen Levin, is an Assistant United States Attorney of the Southern District of New York. His brother, Steve Cohen, a former top aide to New York governor Andrew Cuomo is a partner at the law firm Zuckerman Spaeder in New York City.
An admirer of the works of journalists A. J. Liebling, Ian Frazier and Joseph Mitchell, Cohen took a job as a messenger at the offices of The New Yorker magazine, where he published twelve stories in the "Talk of the Town" section in eighteen months. After working as a reporter for the New York Observer, Cohen joined the staff of Rolling Stone in 1994. Since 2007, he has been a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. In 2008, Cohen's essay on German history was selected for inclusion in The Best American Essays of 2008. In 2013, on NPR's Morning Edition, Newsweek and Daily Beast editor Tina Brown called Cohen's essay on the financier Ted Forstmann "very entertaining" and a "must read".
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