From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Canadian-born American author and scholar (1921–2017)
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
Calgary, Alberta.
[4] His family moved to
Montreal, Quebec, and then to
Revere, Massachusetts.
[4] He taught English at
West Virginia University,
Syracuse University,
Rutgers University and the
City College and the
Graduate Center of the City University of New York. In addition to his work on Charles Dodgson, he produced studies of
Henry Rider Haggard,
Rudyard Kipling and other
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
-
^ Bartlett, Rebecca Ann (1998).
Choice's Outstanding Academic Books 1992–1997: Reviews of Scholarly Titles That Every Library Should Own .
Association of College and Research Libraries (
American Library Association). p. 128.
ISBN
978-0-8389-7929-7
-
^ Burt, Daniel S. (2001).
The Biography Book: A Reader's Guide To Nonfiction, Fictional, and Film Biographies of More Than 500 of the Most Fascinating Individuals of all Time.
Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 61.
ISBN
978-1-57356-256-0
-
^ Edinger, Monica (2001).
Using Beloved Classics to Deepen Reading Comprehension: Rich Lessons and Literature Response Activities That Improve Kids' Reading Comprehension, Build Writing Skills, and Really Engage Each and Every Reader.
Scholastic Inc. p. 138.
ISBN
978-0-439-27860-7
- ^
a
b
c
Sandomir, Richard (5 July 2017).
"Morton Cohen, Scholar of Lewis Carroll and His Wonderland, Dies at 96".
The New York Times.
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.
|
---|
International | |
---|
National | |
---|
Academics | |
---|
Other | |
---|