Morton N. Cohen
Morton Norton Cohen (27 February 1921 – 12 June 2017) was a Canadian-born American author and scholar who was a professor at City University of New York. He is best known for his studies of children's author Lewis Carroll including the 1995 biography Lewis Carroll: A Biography.[1][2][3]
Life
Morton Norton Cohen was born on 27 February 1921 in
Victorian subjects, as well as children's literature, travel articles and fiction. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1996.[5] The Modern Language Association set up the biennial Morton N. Cohen Award for a Distinguished Edition of Letters in 1989. The first award was given in 1991.[6] Under the terms of the award, the "winning collection will be one that provides readers with a clear, accurate, and readable text; necessary background information; and succinct and eloquent introductory material and annotations. The edited collection should be in itself a work of literature."[7][8]
Cohen died on 12 June 2017 in Manhattan, New York.[4]
Selected works
All five works are books (October 2018).
- H. Rider Haggard, His Life and Works – PhD thesis, Columbia University, issued 1958 in microfilm
- Rider Haggard: His Life and Works (London: Hutchinson, 1960)
- Rudyard Kipling to Rider Haggard: The Record of a Friendship (Hutchinson, 1965)
- The Letters of Lewis Carroll, 2 vols., ed. Cohen with the assistance of Roger Lancelyn Green (Oxford University Press, 1979)
- The Selected Letters of Lewis Carroll, edited by Cohen (London: Macmillan, 1982); (London: Papermac, 1996)
- Lewis Carroll and the House of Macmillan, ed. Cohen and Anita Gandolfo (Cambridge University Press, 1987)
- Lewis Carroll: Interviews and Recollections, ed. Cohen (University of Iowa Press, 1989)
- Lewis Carroll: A Biography (Macmillan, 1995)
- Reflections in a Looking Glass: A Centennial Celebration of Lewis Carroll, Photographer (New York: Aperture, 1998)
- Lewis Carroll & His Illustrators: Collaborations and Correspondence, 1865–1898, ed. Cohen and Edward Wakeling (Macmillan, 2003)
References
- ISBN 978-0-8389-7929-7
- ISBN 978-1-57356-256-0
- ISBN 978-0-439-27860-7
- ^ ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 25 January 2022.
- ^ "Prof Morton N Cohen, FRSL". Debrett's. Retrieved 9 September 2010.
- ^ "Morton N. Cohen Award for a Distinguished Edition of Letters". Modern Language Association. Retrieved 9 September 2010.
- ^ "Morton N. Cohen Award for a Distinguished Edition of Letters". Modern Language Association. Retrieved 9 September 2010.
- ^ "Prizes and awards made to the Darwin Correspondence Project and its founding editor" Archived 2010-10-07 at the Wayback Machine. darwinproject.ac.uk (Darwin Correspondence Project). Retrieved 9 September 2010.
