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Rich Cohen was born on 30 July, 1968 in Lake Forest, Illinois, U.S., is an American non-fiction writer. Discover Rich Cohen's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 55 years old?

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Occupation Non-fiction writer, journalist, screenplay writer
Age 55 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 30 July, 1968
Birthday 30 July
Birthplace Lake Forest, Illinois, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1930

Cohen published his first book Tough Jews: Fathers, Sons, and Gangster Dreams—a non-fiction account of the Jewish gangsters of 1930s Brooklyn, notably those involved with Murder, Inc.—in 1998.

1968

Rich Cohen (born July 30, 1968) is an American non-fiction writer.

He is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone.

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 his wife and children.

He is not to be confused with Richard A. Cohen.

Cohen was born into a Jewish family in Lake Forest, Illinois, and grew up in Chicago's North Shore suburb of Glencoe.

1990

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 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.

Cohen had been on close terms with the Rolling Stones since the mid-1990s.

1994

After working as a reporter for the New York Observer, in 1994 Cohen joined the staff of Rolling Stone.

2000

Cohen's second work, The Avengers: A Jewish War Story (2000), follows a group of anti-Nazi partisans in the forests of Lithuania at the close of World War II.

2002

Cohen's third work, the memoir Lake Effect was published in 2002.

2006

In 2006, Cohen published Sweet and Low: A Family Story, a memoir about the creation of the artificial sweetener, a product invented by Benjamin Eisenstadt, Cohen's grandfather.

2007

Since 2007, he has been a contributing editor at Vanity Fair.

In 2022, Cohen became a columnist for the Wall Street Journal.

On February 26, 2007, Paramount Pictures announced it had closed a deal to produce The Long Play, a screenplay which Cohen wrote several drafts for and did research on, for producers Mick Jagger and Martin Scorsese, with Scorsese directing.

2009

In 2009, Cohen published Israel is Real: An Obsessive Quest to Understand the Jewish Nation and its History.

2010

In 2010, Cohen co-wrote the memoir When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead, the story of American film producer Jerry Weintraub.

The book was a New York Times bestseller.

2012

Cohen's story of United Fruit president and banana king Sam Zemurray, The Fish That Ate the Whale, was published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 2012.

In 2012 and 2013 Cohen was an advisor on the Starz series Magic City.

Cohen is a co-creator, with Martin Scorsese, Mick Jagger and Terence Winter, of the HBO series Vinyl.

2013

In 2013, Cohen published Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football, a story of football through the eyes of the 1985 Chicago Bears.

The book was a New York Times best seller.

In 2013, NPR editor Tina Brown called Cohen's essay on the financier Ted Forstmann "very entertaining" and a "must read".

In The New York Times Book Review, writer Vincent Patrick called Cohen's book Tough Jews "marvelous and colorful" with "writing good enough to cause one, at times, to reread a page in order to savor the description".

Another New York Times critic Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, called it "exuberant" and "a vivid narrative"; Cohen's book had "taken the noise of these facts and turned it from gunfire into a kind of music".

Critic Michiko Kakutani called Cohen's Sweet and Low "a classic" ... "A telling—and often hilarious—parable about the pursuit and costs of the American Dream".

2016

Cohen's next book, a narrative history of The Rolling Stones called The Sun and The Moon and the Rolling Stones, was published by Spiegel and Grau in May 2016.

2019

Cohen's 2019 book, The Last Pirate of New York: A Ghost Ship, a Killer, and the Birth of a Gangster Nation, details the life and times of Albert W. Hicks, an American criminal active from about 1840 to 1860.

In 2021 and 2022, Cohen published a pair of memoirs: one about fatherhood, the second about his own father.

Pee Wees: Confessions of a Hockey Parent appeared in early 2021; it is an examination of the explosion of youth hockey, through the story of Cohen and his son.

In May 2022, Cohen published The Adventures of Herbie Cohen, World's Greatest Negotiator, telling the story of his father, the negotiation expert Herb Cohen.

In September 2023, Random House will publish Cohen's When the Game was War: the NBA's Greatest Season.

It is about the rivalry between NBA greats Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Isiah Thomas, and Michael Jordan.